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 bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Standard Fifth Reader - Página 186por Epes Sargent - 1867Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1846 - 436 páginas
...evening care ; Nor 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...glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their teams afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy strobe ! Let not ambition mock their useful... | |
| Timothy Dwight Sprague - 1847 - 408 páginas
...but now there is a fresh grave beside him, and we miss another sun-burned brow and stalwart form ; " Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!" But now they are laid cold — powerless — silent, and the farm is left to the old mother and her... | |
| Thomas Miller - 1847 - 140 páginas
...Elegy, " which I hope all of you have read, has summed up such a life in a few lines, where he says, " Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...; How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! "Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ! Nor Grandeur hear... | |
| Book - 1847 - 216 páginas
...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...How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 páginas
...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...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke 1 Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
| 1847 - 1230 páginas
...another sun-burned brow and stalwart form ; " Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their farrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke, How jocund did they...How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!" But now they are laid cold — powerless — silent, and the farm is left to the old mother and her... | |
| Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 páginas
...Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their harrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they...! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure f Nor grandeur hear... | |
| William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 páginas
...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...! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke '. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 páginas
...evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knee the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear... | |
| John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1848 - 56 páginas
...climb his knees, the envied kiss to share ! Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their harrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke. How jocund did they...! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ! Nor grandeur hear,... | |
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