Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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 431
by Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 240 pages
Full view - About this book

A Criticism of the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

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...
Full view - About this book

The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: W. Thompson, Blair ...

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!...
Full view - About this book

The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Mallet, Akenside ...

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...
Full view - About this book

Poetical selections, consisting of the most approved pieces of our best ...

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...
Full view - About this book

Rights of God, Written for the Benefit of Man: Or, the Impartiality of ...

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...
Full view - About this book

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

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...
Full view - About this book

Beauties of Poetry: Consisting of Elegant Selections from the Works of Pope ...

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...
Full view - About this book

Rights of God Written for the Benefit of Man: Or, the Impartiality of ...

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...
Full view - About this book

The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his ...

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...
Full view - About this book

An excursion to Windsor, in July 1810. Also A sail down the river Medway ...

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...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF