 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...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 of... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 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... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath the'r sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful...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... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple 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... | |
 | Edwin Waugh - Lancashire (England) - 1855 - 282 pages
...furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How how'ii the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! " Let not...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... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1855 - 442 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...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... | |
 | John Warner Barber - Belgium - 1855 - 608 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure : Nor Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and simple 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... | |
 | Collection - 1856 - 120 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 th'inevitable hour. The paths of... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pages
...furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their teams 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... | |
 | William Sherwood - Conversation - 1856 - 466 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... | |
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Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,... 
