 | William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 328 pages
...Or husy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climh liis, knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stuhhorn glehe has hroke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How how'd the woods heneath... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 pages
...no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Nor busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 454 pages
...burn, Nor busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, <>r climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Death - 1845 - 92 pages
...care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share. VII. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke !... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...No children ru'n/ to lisp' their sire's retur'n, Or climb his kn'ees/ the envied ki'ss/ to shar e. Oft did the harvest/ to their si'ckle yiel'd ; Their furrow oft/ the stubborn glebe has br'oke : How jocund did they driv'e/ their team a-field ! How bowed the w'oods/ beneath their st'urdy stro'ke... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1845 - 92 pages
...housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, VI. r\ . - ----- ._ .-- Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! VII. 1 Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their... | |
 | Richard D. Brown - History - 1991 - 385 pages
...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 oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...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...yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not... | |
 | Brian Short - History - 1992 - 260 pages
...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...yield. Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...shall bum, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's retum. Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubbom glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their... | |
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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 glebe... 
