 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...  Specimens of the British poets - Page 188by British poets - 1809Full view - About this book
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...written in a Country Churchyard. THE curfew tolls — the knell of parting day, — The lowing herds 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 wheels... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1849 - 320 pages
...Melancholy mingled with Grandeur.1 From Gray's Elegy. " The curfew tolls, — the knell of parting day; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman...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... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...Melancholy mingled with Grandeur.i From Gray's Elegy. " The curfew tolls, — the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman...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... | |
 | Religion - 1849 - 614 pages
...picture sketched by Gray : — " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowlv o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...Church-yard. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; 5 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... | |
 | Eduard Fiedler - 1850 - 768 pages
...close the face of things. Gray, elegy. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea The ploughman homeward plods his...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... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward plods...the world to darkness — and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the ah- a solemn stillness holds ; Save whore the beetle... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...passions. Example. 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...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 472 pages
...passions, Example. 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...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... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1851 - 392 pages
...skims o'er the deep Low pitch of utterance : 1. The curfew tolls, — the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape from the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle... | |
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