 For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn...  Golden Numbers: A Book of Verse for Youth - Page 613edited by - 1902 - 687 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1848 - 56 pages
...Their harrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke. How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition...annals of the poor! The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour ! — The paths... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pages
...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...annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth ere gave, Await alike the inevitable hour : — TBSLpaths... | |
 | William Chambers - 1851 - 200 pages
...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...annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour; The paths of... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 pages
...Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield 1 How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke. Let not Ambition...annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await, alike, the inevitable hour ; — The paths... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 472 pages
...Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield 1 How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke. Let not Ambition...annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power. And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await, alike, the inevitable hour ; — The... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team a-fleld! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition...annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour:— The paths... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition...short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry,5 the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth ere gave, Await alike the inevitable... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 380 pages
...33. " Very like," says the editor, (in a note to the Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of...wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. 35 The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory... | |
 | Choice descriptive poetry - 1852 - 112 pages
...forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed ; The cock's shrill clarion,...annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await, alike, the inevitable hour : The paths... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 470 pages
...forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion,...annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour — The paths... | |
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