How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labors, ...and whose talk is of bullocks?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There were no clouds, the sun was going down in a limpid, gold-washed sky. Just as the lower edge of the red disk rested on the hi...gh fields against the horizon, a great black figure suddenly appeared on the face of the sun. We sprang to our feet, straining our eyes toward it. In a moment we realized what it was. On some upland farm, a plough had been left standing in the field. The sun was sinking just behind it. Magnified across the distance by the horizontal light, it stood out against the sun, was exactly contained within the circle of the disk; the handles, the tongue, the share--black against the molten red. There it was, heroic in size, a picture writing on the sun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Because the Muses never knew their pains. They boast their peasants' pipes, but peasants now... Resign their pipes and plod behind the plough;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall;--... Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs;... Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where are these men? Asleep beneath their grounds: And strangers, fond as they, their furrows plough.... Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is... such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In life, then, no new thing has ever arisen, or can arise, save out of the impulse of the male upon the female, the female upon th...e male. The interaction of the male and female spirit begot the wheel, the plough, and the first utterance that was made on the face of the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »