 | 1806 - 408 pages
...the envied kiss to share. 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 Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 456 pages
...the envied kiss to share. 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 ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...the envied kiss to share. 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! Let not amhition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and desliny ohscure; Nor... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...envy'd kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn E»k>be has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure; Nor... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...the envied kiss to share. 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 Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys', and destiny obscure; Nor... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...the envy'd kiss to share. 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 Ambition mock their useful toil. Their homely joys and destiny obscure; Nor... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...the envied kiss to share. 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 ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 pages
...the envied kiss to share. 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 Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 266 pages
...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 afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! VIII. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil Their homely joys, and destiny obscure... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 pages
...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 afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! VIII. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure... | |
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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. 
