 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 368 pages
...Georg. iii. 639. " Labour him with many a sturdy stroke." Nor grandcur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that weolth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. ss The paths... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...harrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke . Let not ambition...annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour. The paths of... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 pages
...Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition...annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour. The paths of... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath the'r sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful...annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: — The paths... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: — The paths... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1855 - 442 pages
...furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition...annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: — The paths... | |
 | Edwin Waugh - Lancashire (England) - 1855 - 282 pages
...furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How how'ii the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! " Let not...of the poor. " The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour ; The paths... | |
 | John Warner Barber - Belgium - 1855 - 608 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure : Nor Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await, alike, the inevitable hour; — The paths... | |
 | Collection - 1856 - 120 pages
...holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant*folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping...annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th'inevitable hour. The paths of... | |
 | William Sherwood - Conversation - 1856 - 466 pages
...Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition...annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await, alike, the inevitable hour ; The paths... | |
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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. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn... 
