 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
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1854 - 398 pages
...skims o'er the deep Low pitch of utterance : 1. 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 from the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight,... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 pages
...ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. TUB 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, Or... | |
 | John Warner Barber - Belgium - 1855 - 608 pages
...; 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...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant fold* : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...breathe around The harmony to others. Thomson's Seasons. The eurfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landseape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1855 - 442 pages
...written in a Country Churchyard. 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 that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...fulg. GRAY'S "ELEGt," WRITTEN IK A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THB curfew toll.- the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...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 drony flight, And... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...with ideas of contemplative delight." — Tuckcrman. THE curfew tolls1 the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the heetle wheels his droning flight, And... | |
 | Collection - 1856 - 120 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...leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glittering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...of Carlisle. MACAULAY. ELEGY IN A COUNTEY CHUECHYAED. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels Ms droning flight, And... | |
 | 1858 - 460 pages
...AN ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. — Gray. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...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 drony flight, And... | |
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