 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 his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the...  Choice Literature: ... for Grammar Grades - Page 2471898Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...(k), 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...the distant folds. Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...(r), 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...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... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...claps his well-fledg'd wings, and bears away. at ELECY I . 'A ELEGY WRITTEN IN COUNTRr CHURCH-TARD. T. HE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing...the distant folds; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the onoon complain Of such, as wandering near her secret '• bower,... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 pages
..., La tombe qu'ils avaient refusée à Narcisse. GRAY. X THE COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. AN ELEGY. 1 • 1 HE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing...distant folds: Save that , from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...ELEGY Writteu in A COUNTRY CIIUnCH-YARD. JL HE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods...the distant 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 pages
...slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way. And leaves the world to darkness aud to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,...distant folds : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the Moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...helpless man repose in peace? AN ELEGY, Written in a Country Church Yard, GRAY. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd 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... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - 1815 - 376 pages
...vicious rich, with a melancholy pleasure) will illustrate the above sentiment: " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...lowing herds through living pastures rove." The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 pages
...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...distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest... | |
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