 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
 | William Linwood - 1846 - 372 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Linwood - 1846 - 342 pages
...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...distant folds: Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her sccret bower, Molest... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 pages
...day, The lowing herd wiad 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 wandering near her secret bower, Molest... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1847 - 276 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1848 - 56 pages
...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...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... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...— 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. Now fades the glimmering...distant folds; — Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complaiu Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pages
...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. Now fades the glimmering...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... | |
 | 1849 - 614 pages
...day, The lowing herd winds slowlv 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." How such a picture recalls the days of childhood and youth, when we, too, whose homes were... | |
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