 | 1852 - 460 oldal
...The swallow twiS ^fc from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarmn^or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no...sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. x Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 470 oldal
...swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 460 oldal
...shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more tte blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her...sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. t Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke... | |
 | 1853 - 560 oldal
...swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 oldal
...swallow twittering from her straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or thff echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1927 - 778 oldal
...mourning. Men say of the dead — to use Gray's paraphrase of these very lines — ' " For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share : " but they do not add that for all these things the desire will have passed away ; and they... | |
 | Donna Landry - 1990 - 344 oldal
...Elegy, from which Gray's poor have been banished, of course, since they are dead: For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. (21-24) In Yearsley's peasant household, people read - not tracts or homiletic verse, but... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 oldal
...swallow twitt'ring from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no...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:... | |
 | Brian Short - 1992 - 260 oldal
...swallow twitt'ring from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no...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;... | |
 | M. Owen Lee - 1996 - 192 oldal
...Horace (Odes 2.14.2122) uses Lucretius' passage, as does Thomas Gray in his Elegy: For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. But what is rueful in these poets, as they contemplate death ending life, becomes joyful... | |
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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. 
