 And I have said, and I say it ever, As the years go on and the world goes over, 'Twere better to be content and clever In tending of cattle and tossing of clover, In the grazing of cattle and the growing of grain, Than a strong man striving for fame or...  Songs of the Sierras - Stran 1avtor: Joaquin Miller - 1871 - 301 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 strani
...experiences which he has now begun to embody in very striking and picturesque poems] ARIZONIAN. " And I have said, and I say it ever, As the years go on...striving for fame or gain ; Be even as kine in the red-tipped clover; For they lie down and their rests are rests, And the days are theirs, come sun come... | |
 | Joaquin Miller, Juanita Joaquina Miller - 1873 - 328 strani
...disgrace, To hold thy two brown hands in mine t ENGLAND, 1871. SONGS OF THE SIERRAS. ARIZONIAN. " A NT) I have said, and I say it ever, As the years go on and the world goea over. 'Twere better to be content and clever In tending of cattle and tossing of clover, In the... | |
 | John Newman Edwards - 1877 - 532 strani
...to-day in Missouri, while Evans, Gaugh, and Williams — some where near the setting sun — " are content and clever In tending of cattle and tossing...In the grazing of cattle and the growing of grain." Bridge water was a brave man, even where the odds were not in his favor ; having the advantage, he... | |
 | American poems - 1878 - 536 strani
...experiences which he has now begun to embody in very striking and picturesque poems] ARIZONIAN. " And I have said, and I say it ever, As the years go on...striving for fame or gain ; Be even as kine in the red-tipped clover ; For they lie down and their rests are rests, And the days are theirs, come sun... | |
 | Fannie Isabel Sherrick - 1888 - 186 strani
...builds anew — And know ye not, oh, care-worn hearts, Life, too, hath hope for you? THE RANCHMAN. " And I have said, and I say it ever. As the years go on...goes over, 'Twere better to be content and clever In the tending of cattle and tossing of clover, In the grazing of cattle and growing of grain, Than a... | |
 | William Warfield - 1889 - 402 strani
...though Joaquin Miller has struck a truer key in his verse, which I heartily applaud, when he says: "And I have said, and I say it ever, As the years go on,...growing of grain, Than a strong man striving for fame and gain." But despite the poet it is a prosaic thing to feed and bed down and milk and care for a... | |
 | Indiana. State Board of Agriculture - 1890 - 668 strani
...prevalent notion, or popular sentiment, has been expressed in the oft-quoted lines of Joaquin Miller — " I have said and I say it ever, As the years go on...the growing of grain, Than a strong man striving for gain." I protest against this superficial view — a view that recognizes in farming nothing better... | |
 | Indiana. State Board of Agriculture - 1890 - 670 strani
...prevalent notion, or popular sentiment, has been expressed in the oft-quoted lines of Joaquin Miller — " I have said and I say it ever, As the years go on and the world goes over, 'Twore bettor to be content and clever In tending of cattle and tossing of clover-- In the grazing... | |
 | 1892 - 520 strani
...gray, That for a space forgets to run, And hides his face as if to pray. —Ibid. CONTENTMENT. "AND I have said, and I say it ever, As the years go on and the world goes over, ' Т were better to be content and clever In tending of cattle and tossing of clover, In the grazing... | |
 | Joaquin Miller - 1893 - 309 strani
...91 SONGS OF THE SIERRAS. ARIZONIAN. I f A nd I have said, and I say it ever, /lAsthe years goonand the world goes over, Twere better to be content and clever, In the tending of cattle and the tossing of clover, In the grazing of cattle and growing of grain, Than... | |
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