 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 pàgines
...sleep. (299> The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the Btraw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn,...How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1857 - 464 pàgines
...No more shr.ll rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Nor busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pàgines
...care; Nor children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. 7. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield; Their furrow...afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 8. Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and tdestiny obscure ; Nor grandeur... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pàgines
...fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings...How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pàgines
...passion cease ; In still small accents whispering from the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace.] Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,...! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! « This is considered the finest Elegy in any language. It has been termed " exquisite and most thoroughly... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pàgines
...for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.9 The breezy call of incense-breathing Mom, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed,...stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pàgines
...yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy...glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team a-fleld ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock then- useful toil,... | |
 | Elias Nason - 1877 - 332 pàgines
...other landlord than the Lord of all the land, to whom I owe the most sincere gratitude." DICKINSON. " Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! " THOMAS GRAY. As the location of the church on Meeting-House... | |
 | Richard D. Brown - 1991 - 385 pàgines
...rank, expressed a similar view more picturesquely in his "Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard": Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with disdainful smile The short and simple... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pàgines
...shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy houswife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their...glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team af1eld! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their... | |
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Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny... 
