 The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness...  The English Poets: Addison to Blake - Page 327edited by - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...Ver. 2. The lowing herd wmd slowly o'er the lea] " The lowing herds through living pastures rove." The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : VARIATIONS. Ver. 8. And] Or, Ms. M. and W. NOTES. In the Diosemeia of Aratus, this picture... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH- YARD. THE clirfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...distant folds : Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bow'r, Molest... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 196 pages
...ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 282 pages
...WRITTEN IK A COUNTRY CHU11CH- YARD. THE cnrfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward plods...leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmMng landscape^ on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds ; Save where the beetle... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...fears, Sweet promise of ecstatic years ! How fainly would I bend the knee, And turn idolater to thee ! ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE curfew...leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 584 pages
...rubbers. ELEGY WRITTEN l!f A COVNTHY CHVRCH-YABD. *• THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day,* The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on tke sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting dav, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle... | |
 | William Oxberry - Theater - 1824 - 402 pages
...da,y. The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering...distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl doth to the moon complaiti Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bew'r, Molest... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...extremes ; And find a life of equal bliss, Or own the next begun in this. PARNEIL. , SECTION II. An elegy written in a country church-yard. The curfew...leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle... | |
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