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
| Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...THE COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. ELEGY. x HE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wïnds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glknmering landscape on the sight, And aIl the air a solemn stillness holds, Save \there the beetle... | |
| Classical philology - 1826 - 360 pages
...day, 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 landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stilness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 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...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, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...Where melancholy Friendship bends, and weeps. ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. 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. • This Epitaph was written at the request of Mr.Frederic Montagu,... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...GRAY'S ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. Reprinted according to the original copy. 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 droning flight,... | |
| John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...Country Churchyard.—GRAY. 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 droning flight,... | |
| George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 292 pages
...day, 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 landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And... | |
| John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...Country Churchyard. — GRAY. 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 Sroning flight,... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...written in a Country Churchyard. — GRAY? THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward...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... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...written in a Country Churchyard. The curfew to'ls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds P.owly sight, And nil the air a solemn stillness holds. Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, Ami... | |
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