 | Kate Gordon (of Fyvie.) - 1866 - 258 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - 328 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Osborn (schoolmaster) - 1871 - 114 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1884 - 794 Seiten
...share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; Dow jocund did they drive their team a-field! How bowed...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1872 - 458 Seiten
...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... | |
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For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn 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... 
