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From "THE HOCK-CART, OR HARVEST HOME:TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE MILDMAY, EARL OF WE
STMORLAND" by Robert Herrick:
And all go back unto the plough
And harrow, though they're hang'd up now.
From "A NEW YEAR'S GIFT,SENT TO SIR SIMEON STEWARD" by Robert Herrick:
And let the russet swains the plough
And harrow hang up resting now;
From "The Gift Of The Sea" by Rudyard Kipling:
The gray gull follows the plough.
'Twas never a bird, the voice I heard,
O mother, I hear it now!"
"Lie still, dear lamb, lie still;
From "The Dance At The Phoenix" by Thomas Hardy:
The favorite Quick-step "Speed the Plough"-(Cross hands, cast off, and wheel)-"The Triumph," "Sylph," "The Row-dow dow,"
Famed "Major Malley's Reel,"
From "Friends Beyond" by Thomas Hardy:
WILLIAM Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough,
Robert's kin, and John's, and Ned's,
And the Squire, and Lady Susan, lie in Mellstock churchyard now!
"Gone," I call them, gone for good, that group of local hearts and
From "Tall Nettles" by Edward Thomas:
TALL nettles cover up, as they have done
These many springs, the rusty harrow, the plough
Long worn out, and the roller made of stone:
Only the elm butt tops the nettles now.
From "Little Bateese" by William Henry Drummond:
Off on de fiel' you foller de plough

Den w'en you 're tire you scare the cow

From "Farmer and the Cowman" from "Oklahoma":
One man likes to push a plough,
The other likes to chase a cow,
From "Without A Song" by Perry Como:
That field of corn, would never see a plough
That field of corn, would be deserted now
From "The Molecatcher" by Lloyd:
In Wellington town at the sign of the plough
There lived a molecatcher, shall I tell you how?
From "Spotted Cow" by Steeleye Span:
Or go to view the plough
She comes and calls, "You gentle swain
I've lost my spotted cow"
She comes and calls, "You gentle swain
From "Moonshine In The Mountains" by Robert Calvert:
she could milk it with one foot and plough
with the other ... no that ain't right somehow
From "By The Hush" by Andy M. Stewart:
I sold me horse and plough,
Me little pigs and cow,
From "Killing Floor" by Redgum:
Hands like a stump jump plough
Moved the earth with a thrust of his arms
He was loading on the paint line now
From "Aisling" by Christy Moore:
Curse the spade and curse the plough
I've counted years and weeks and days,
And I wish to God I was with you now
From "Another Day" by Bertolf:
Well, get up on your feet and just work the plough
You will always regret if you don't do it now

From "Another Day" by Bertolf:

Well, get up on your feet and just work the plough
You will always regret if you don't do it now
Maybe you can do something
You didn't even know
From "He Thinks Of His Past Greatness When A Part Of The Constellations Of Heave
n" by William Butler Yeats:
I HAVE drunk ale from the Country of the Young
And weep because I know all things now:
I have been a hazel-tree, and they hung
The Pilot Star and the Crooked Plough
From "THE COUNTRY LIFE:" by Robert Herrick:
And cheer'st them up, by singing how
The kingdom's portion is the plough.
From "The Relic Taken, What Avails The Shrine?" by Robert Louis Stevenson:
The sun is set. My heart is widowed now
Of that companion-thought. Alone I plough
From "Come, Here Is Adieu To The City" by Robert Louis Stevenson:
The timbered country woos me
With many a high and bough;
And again in the shining fallows
The ploughman follows the plough.
From "A Dedication" by Robert Burns:
For me! sae laigh I need na bow,
For, Lord be thankit, I can plough;
From "The Riddle" by Thomas Hardy:
Hills of blank brow
Where no waves plough.
From "Pet-Lamb, The: A Pastoral Poem" by William Wordsworth:
"Thy limbs will shortly be twice as stout as they are now,
Then I'll yoke thee to my cart like a pony in the plough;
From "Friends Beyond" by Thomas Hardy:
Thus, with very gods' composure, freed those crosses late and soon
Which, in life, the Trine allow

(Why, none witteth), and ignoring all that haps beneath the moon,
William Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough,
From "Leipzig" by Thomas Hardy:
Their sepulchres from below.
"To Heaven is blown Bridge Lindenau;
Wrecked regiments reel therefrom;
And rank and file in masses plough
From "Earth's Answer" by William Blake:
When buds and blossoms grow?
Does the sower
Sow by night,
Or the plowman in darkness plough?
From "Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine" by Hilaire Belloc:
No harvest for the husbandman, but now
Shall bear a nobler foison than the plough;
From "Fugue 2 / Song of Daedalus" by Joe Jackson:
Call me now
Call me stars, moon and plough
From "Hallelujah Time" by BOB MARLEY:
All afflictions got to end somehow
From swinging the hammer, pulling the plough
From "Long Live The King" by Aaron Shust:
My lungs keep breathing I admit I don't know how
Bring the flood or bring the fire in this lifetime
I'm ready for the altar or the plough
From "The Milk Of Human Kindness" by A Salty Dog:
did you feel you had to break that lonely vow?
When you knew that I was through
that I'd done all I could do
did you really have to sow that final plough?
From "Lady What's Tomorrow" by Elton John:
Will it be the same as now
Will the farmer push the pen
Will the writer pull the plough

From "Vicious Rumours" by Alice Cooper:

All of this is getting normal now
You'll never go back to your farming plough
From "The Boy in Me" by Glen Campbell:
If I knew then what I know now
I would've been content to play
And not to rush my hand to take the plough
Oh Jesus, bring back the boy in me.
From "It's On" by Chamillionaire:
You think you can stop my cash, and I'ma tell you how
9-1-1 are the snitch buttons on the dial
I put so many jewels on the table on a tile
To push all the ice off, you gon' need a snow plough
From "Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe" by Burl Ives:
Look down in yonder valley where my verdant crops do grow.
Look down in yonder valley at my horses and my plough,
From "Let's All Go (To The Fire Dances)" by Killing Joke:
take the future in your hands now
let's do this dance forever
teacher teach me something new please
sow the seed god speed the plough
From "Light of a Fading Star" by Flogging Molly:
I don't need to know right now
'Cause beyond the pale lies evening
And the shadow of the plough
From "Southern Stars" by Remedy:
The ghosts of Eureka are calling to me now
To fashion a sword from the steel of the plough
From "Moonshine In The Mountains" by Robert Calvert:
it had something to do with a cow
she could milk it with one foot and plough
From "Wield The Spade" by Oysterhead:
They will pay for crimes that God and I will not allow
Some before the firing squad and some behind the plough

From "One Thin Dime" by Garr Lange:

It doesn't matter anyhow
cuz when it's all over
When you're pushin' up the clover
It won't matter to a plough
From "Another Day" by Bertolf:
Before you get the sign to go
Well, get up on your feet and just work the plough

See plough used in context: 8 Shakespeare works, 1 Bible passage

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From "The Dying Words Of Stonewall Jackson" by Sidney Lanier:

O hero-words that glittered like the stars
And stood and shone above the gloomy wars
From "Rabbi Ben Ezra" by Robert Browning:
Not that, admiring stars,
It yearned "Nor Jove, nor Mars;
From "Mazeppa" by George Gordon, Lord Byron:
Rose crimson, and deposed the stars,
And called the radiance from their cars,
From "The Twelve-Forty-Five" by Joyce Kilmer:
And now the grave incurious stars
Gleam on the groaning hurrying cars.

From "To a Young Poet who Killed Himself" by Joyce Kilmer:

You could not vex the merry stars
Nor make them heed you, dead or living.
Not all your puny anger mars
God's irresistible forgiving.
From "Prisoner, The - (A Fragment)" by Emily Jane Bront: