 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...ELEGY, 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...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 as,... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the len, The plowman homewards plods his wcnry way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. i Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain, Of such... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves die world to darkness and to me, Now fades the glimmering...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl docs to the moon complain Of such as,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1855 - 468 pages
...The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward plods his weary wav, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Patrick Boyde - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 38 pages
...the opening of Gray's Elegy by heart: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds: and you will remember that Gray establishes the mood appropriate for his Elegy by linking the... | |
 | Stein Haugom Olsen - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 246 pages
...Churchyard', with FW Halt-son's comments: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea. The ploughman homeward plods...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds; It is true that cattle do not normally 'low' or 'wind' their way at sunset, and that 'drowsy... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Biography & Autobiography - 1986 - 680 pages
...of a midshipman and shouting in a hoarse whisper — 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 rest of the verses. Of course Wolfe said it, if he ever said it at all, on some... | |
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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... 
