 THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind 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 Class Book of Poetry - Page 82by Class-book - 1852 - 144 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. v 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 drony flight, And... | |
 | William Chambers - Children's poetry - 1851 - 200 pages
...ELEGY. WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE 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... | |
 | English language - 1851 - 278 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...darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape 011 the sight* ' And all the air a solemn stillness holds, .. J Save where the beetle wheels his drony... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1851 - 392 pages
...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 homeward plods...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,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 378 pages
...is the time incorrect ; and a knell is not tolled for the parting, but for the parted. ' And leaves the world to darkness and to me.' ' Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight. Here the incidents, instead of being progressive, fall back, and make the picture confused and... | |
 | Charles Henry Knox - 1852 - 928 pages
...day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The shepherd homewards plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. " Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the world a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle hums her drowsy flight, And... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...unseen by all, The sweet Lavinia. THOMSON. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. 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 where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And... | |
 | William Herbert - 1853 - 234 pages
...robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. SOLEMN DESCRIPTION. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly...ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. -Two nights together, had these gentlemen, Marcellus and Bernardo,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 pages
...is the time incorrect; and a knell is not tolled for the parting, but for the parted. * And leaves the world to darkness and to me.' * Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight.' Here the incidents, instead of being progressive, fall back, and make the picture confused... | |
 | 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,... | |
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