 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...Written ia a Country Churck-Yard. ^HE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, -*- The lowing herd winds 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... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...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 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 Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...sleep. X. — Elfgy written in a Country Churchyard,— THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day j The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...as now, thj gift pf sleep. X. — Elegy written in a Country Churchyard. — GRAT. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herds wind slowly...ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Kow fades the glim'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...mind, and the shades of Evening were alone wanting to complete the incantation : — The CCRFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly...Ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me ! A'OUJ fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...executed. ELEGY 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...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,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...seek, as now, thy gift ofsleep. X. — Elcgywrittenma County Churchyard. — GHAT. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herds wind slowly...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 Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...Churchyard. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting J^. ; , " The lowing herds wind slightly o'er theflIP? The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...ELEGY, 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...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as,... | |
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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... 
