 | John Wesley - Biography - 1786 - 738 pages
...the envied kifs to fhare. Oft did the barveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their fturciy ftroke \ Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys and deftiny obfcure; Nor... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...Or climb his knees 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 bovv'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...climb his knees, 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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...climb his knees 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 ambition mock their useful toil , Their homely... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...Or climb hisjcnees ihe 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...Or climb his knees 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...Or climb his knees 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... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 456 pages
...climb his knees 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... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...Or climb his knee 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...Or climb his knees 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... | |
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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. 
