 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...passions wake, and pass In beaded drops of fiery dew ? Here is his graphic sketch of the Ploughman : — Clear the brown path, to meet his coulter's gleam...sunburnt brow, The lord of earth, the hero of the plough ! First in the field, before the reddening sun, Last in the shadows when the day is done. Line after... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...Beautiful! BUKRINGTON. CXXIV. — THE PLOUGHMAN. 1. CLEAR the brown path to meet his coulter's £I gleam ! Lo ! on he comes, behind his smoking team,...sun-burnt brow, The lord of earth, the hero of the plough ! First in the field before the reddening sun, Last in the shadows when the day is done, Line after... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...while the Moon of Harvest shines, thy blustering whirlwind spare ! HlNKY KlKKB WHITE. THE PLOUGHMAN. ght ; That sometimes from the savage den, And sometimes from the dar Iwhind his smoking train, With toil's bright dew-dropson his sun Inirn t brow, The lord of earth, the... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...whirlwind spare ! HENRY Кшкв WHITE. THE PLOUGHMAN. CLEAR the brown path to meet his coulter's gleam t hat ghastly gibbet ! How dismal 'tis to see The great tall spectral skelet hissunburnt brow, The lortl of earth, the hero of the plough I First in the field liefere the reddening... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1875 - 436 pages
...AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, OCT. 4, 1849. []LEAR the brown path, to meet his coulter's gleam ! Lo I on he conies, behind his smoking team, With toil's bright dew-drops...sunburnt brow, The lord of earth, the hero of the plough ! First in the field before the reddening snn, Last in the shadows when the day is done, Line after... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...merriment Their days are spent, whose minds are bent To follow the useful plow ! ANONYMOUS. THE PLOWMAN. CLEAR the brown path to meet his coulter's gleam !...sunburnt brow, The lord of earth, the hero of the plow ! First in the field before the reddening sun, Last in the shadows when the day is done, Line... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...merriment Their days are spent, whose minds are bent To follow the useful plow ! ANONYMOUS. THE PLOWMAN. CLEAR the brown path to meet his coulter's gleam !...sunburnt brow, The lord of earth, the hero of the plow ! First in the field Ix-fore the reddening sun, Ijist in the shadows when the day is done, Line... | |
 | Hermann Marcus Kottinger - Christianity - 1877 - 334 pages
...Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought ! — Longfellow. nl i The Plowman. Clear the brown path, to meet his coulter's gleam...comes, behind his smoking team, With Toil's bright drops on his sunburnt brow, The lord of earth, the hero of the plow. F.irst in the field before the... | |
 | Pennsylvania. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1893 - 882 pages
...past, so that really, as the poet Holmes has poetically said, the fanner is marching to the front. "Clear the brown path, to meet his coulter's gleam!...sun-burnt brow; The Lord of Earth, the hero of the plow." Assert, therefore, and keep the place which properly belongs to yon, in view of your over-showing... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...merriment Their days are spent, whose minds are bent To follow the useful plough. ANONYMOUS. THE PLOUGHMAN. ! First in the field before the reddening sun, Last in the shadows when the day is done, Line after... | |
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First in the field before the reddening sun, Last in the shadows when the day is done, Line after line, along the bursting sod, Marks the broad acres where his feet have trod ; Still, where he treads, the stubborn clods divide, The smooth, fresh furrow... 
