 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep. X. — Elfgy written in a Country Churchyard,— THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day j The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - 1815 - 376 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 glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds. Save where the beetle wields his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...Ver. 2. The lowing herd wmd slowly o'er the lea] " The 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 landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 pages
...SECTION II. The lowing herd winds flowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, An elegy written in a country church-yard. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, And leaves the world to darknefs and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landfcape on the flght, And... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...London's spiry turrets rise, Think of its crimes, its cares, its pain, Then shield me in the woods again. ELEGY Written in a Country Church-yard. THE curfew...ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to met Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
 | 1839 - 894 pages
...name 1 Gray stole from this the idea of his Elegy I " 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 tin? world to darkness and to mo. " Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air... | |
 | 1854 - 758 pages
...extent." The first stanza of the Elegy — " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing held winds slowly o'er the lea. The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me : " is thus rendered by Mr Smith : — " Rettulit cxsequias lucis vox... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...to complete the incantation : — The CCRFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The Ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me ! A'OUJ fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 pages
...in a Country Churchyard. — GRAT. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Kow fades the glim'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 pages
...executed. ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
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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 sight, And all the air a solemn stillness... 
