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" 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 82
by Class-book - 1852 - 144 pages
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Œuvres de M.J. Chénier ...: précédés d'une notice sur Chénier, Volume 3

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...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 34

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...
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

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...
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The Works of Thomas Gray, Esq

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,...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

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,...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

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,...
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The American Reader: Containing Extracts Suited to Excite a Love of Science ...

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...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

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,...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

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...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

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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