 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 glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their...  The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith - Stran 53avtor: Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 118 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 strani
...lowly bed ! For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care : Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...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... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 strani
...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 th' inevitable hour : — The paths... | |
 | Kate Gordon (of Fyvie.) - 1866 - 258 strani
...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 - 1866 - 412 strani
...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 strani
...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... | |
 | 1869 - 436 strani
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall bum Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - 328 strani
...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 strani
...forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twitt'ring from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion,...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 strani
...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 - 1870 - 456 strani
...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... | |
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