| Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...be employed on the occasion." 1 HE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day (r), The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds [3Q]. Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such... | |
| English poetry - 1800 - 322 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... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...Scott's Critical Essays, 8~no. 1785.] THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, r The lowing herd winds 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, r The Curfeia tolls the knell of parting day, squilla... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...-written in a Country Church" . Yard. JL HE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds 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 drony flight, And... | |
| Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, • Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings...folds ; 'Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, 'L he moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wandering near her secret bower, Mulest h«... | |
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 456 pages
...day, The lowing herd wind 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...from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the•moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...CHURCH-YARD. (GRAY.J THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, 1 he ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the gliinm'ring" landscape on the sight,. And all the air a solemn stillness holds ; Save where the beetle... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...day, The lowing herds wind 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...folds; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The mopeing owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient... | |
| English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...mountain's brow began to wind. ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. [GRAY.] THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly...and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save jvhere the beetle wheels his drony flight, And... | |
| 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... | |
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