 How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy 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 annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,...  Poems for Young People - Page 37edited by - 1851 - 173 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Kate Gordon (of Fyvie.) - 1866 - 258 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, Awake alike th' inevitable hour : The paths... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 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 th' inevitable hour : The paths... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; 30 Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of...wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour ; 35 The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - 328 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...beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the enevitable hour : The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...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...annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour, The paths of... | |
 | 1870 - 464 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; 30 Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of...wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour; 35 The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1870 - 456 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 ere gave, Await alike the inevitable hour — The paths... | |
 | William Osborn (schoolmaster) - 1871 - 114 pages
...yield ; Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-fie'.d ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke !...annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awake alike the inevitable hour; — The paths... | |
 | Readers - 1884 - 794 pages
...share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; Dow jocund did they drive their team a-field! How bowed...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1872 - 458 pages
...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...annals of the poor: The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth ere gave, Await alike the inevitable hour — The paths... | |
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