 ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD THE curfew tolls the knell of parting 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...  Everyday Classics: Primer-eighth Reader - Page 347by Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - 1847 - 276 pages
...steepsAh l gallant youth ! this marble tells the rest, Where melancholy Fricndship bends, and weeps. > ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. • THE Curfew...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...once like him to feel : His cypress wreath my meed decree, And I, 0 Fear, will dwell with thee ! GRAY. ELEGY. Written in a Country Church-yard. The Curfew...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... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1848 - 56 pages
...unbounded prospect lies before me ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it! Addison. XIX. ELESY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. The curfew tolls...; 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 pages
...of mind, as will lead to religious meditation, which always has the effect of calming the passions. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. The curfew...; 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... | |
 | William Chambers - 1851 - 200 pages
...usefulness, Man to comfort and to bless ; And these desert wastes must be Untracked regions but for thee ! ELEGY. WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 pages
...as will lead to religious meditation, which always has the effect of calming the passions. Example. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. The curfew...; 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 472 pages
...as will lead to religious meditation, which always has the effect of calming the passions, Example. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. The curfew...; 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... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...auger, sudden fear, &c. EXAMPLES OF SLOW MOVEMENT. The curfew tolls the knell of parting 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. On horror's head, horrors accumulate. High on a throne of royal state,... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...A. COUNTRY CHUECH-YARD. The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o 'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way,...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 Warner Barber - 1855 - 608 pages
...Signature. ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of pBrting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The plowman...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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