 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 trang
...no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care : Nor children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their teams afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 292 trang
...ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient, solitary reign. Beneath those...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath tkeir sturdy stroke ! 14* Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 trang
...rouse them from their lowly bed. The swallow, twittering from the straw-built shed, For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...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... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 286 trang
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall bum, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! . How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 14* Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 282 trang
...no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; Ns children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath tkeir sturdy stroke ! -J* 170 THE AMERICAN READEU.^| Let not Ambition mock... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 trang
...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...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 trang
...busy housewife ply her eyeuiug care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb lu .( kuees s it to be found but iu the finest of our soils. At...companion the famous Jonathan Swift, who retained no a-fleld 1 How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke I Let not ambition mock their useful toil,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1831 - 294 trang
...lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield , Their...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... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 trang
...evening care; No 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...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 8. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | 1836 - 558 trang
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed For them no more the blazing hearth shall bum, Or 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... | |
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The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife... 
