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 sight, And all the air a solemn stillness... New National Third Reader - Page 431by Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 240 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Young - 1810 - 432 pages
...Jan. 1783. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. *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. * — The knell of parting day,] i Squilla di lontano, Che paia 'Igiorno... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 686 pages
...ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. BY MR. CRAY. 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. CARMEN ELEGÍ ACUM. IN СЛ5МЕТЕПЮ RUSTICO COMPOSITCM. AUDISTIN!... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 pages
...Tl>e lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary «ay. 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... | |
| Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...Written in a Country Church Yard, GRAY. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his...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 - 1812 - 370 pages
...sentiment : " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, Tfre 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... | |
| William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds ; Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull 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... | |
| 1814 - 310 pages
...CHURCB-YARJ). BY THOMAS GRAY. • •• 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 leaves the world to darkness and to me. fades the glimmering landscape on the sight. And all the air a solemn... | |
| Thomas Branagan - 1815 - 376 pages
...will illustrate the above sentiment: " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his...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... | |
| John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the Beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings...distant folds :— Save that from yonder ivy-mantled TOW'B The moping Owl does to the Moon complain, Of such as wand'ring near her secret bow'r Molest her... | |
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