 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...lsbourers — the reapers, the ploughmen, &c. How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition...smile The short and simple annals of the poor. [The thoughtless1 world to majesty may bow, Exalt the brave, and idolize success ; But more to innocence... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...furrow oft/ the stubborn glebe has br'oke : How jocund did they driv'e/ their team a-field ! How bowed the w'oods/ beneath their st'urdy stro'ke ! Let not ambiti'on/ mock their useful to'il, Their homely joy's/, and destiny obsc'ure ; Nor graAndeur h'ear (with a disdainful s'mile) The sho'rt... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 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 mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure j Nor Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and simple... | |
 | 1846 - 436 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... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Birds - 1847 - 140 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...smile The short and simple annals of the poor." The world may never even hear of their names ; yet they have done their day's work, their duty to their... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - Literature - 1847 - 238 pages
...Their 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 mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure f Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 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 ere gave, Await alike the inevitable hour : — TBSLpaths... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - English language - 1848 - 56 pages
...Their 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... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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... | |
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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. 
