 | Edwin Waugh - 1869 - 334 pages
...furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition...alike the inevitable hour; The paths of glory lead — but to the grave. Yet e'en these bones, from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bow'd ed 1854. 1534.— CASA WAPPT. And" circles thine....thy happy coast repair ; Blest isle, with match . yo proud, impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1873 - 40 pages
...yield, their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : how jocund did they drive their team afield ! 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 awaits alike the inevitable hour : the paths... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 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...smile, The short and simple annals of the Poor. [The thoughtless world to Majesty may bow, Exalt the Brave, and idolise Success ; But more to innocence... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandenr hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of...alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Kor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies... | |
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How bow'd 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,... 
