 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 trang
...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 trang
...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 trang
...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... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 trang
...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... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 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 rugged...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 trang
...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 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...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 trang
...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 trang
...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 trang
...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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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... 
