 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 454 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 pages
..."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...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... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - Elocution - 1845 - 374 pages
...Melancholy mingled with Grandeur* " The curfew tolls, — the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward plods...to me. " Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds ; Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And... | |
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 342 pages
...stipe victus erat ! L. tn a ®ountrn THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 372 pages
...stipe victus erat ! LU. in a Œountrg THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 206 pages
...pitying human cares. WORDSWORTH. ELEGY. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1847 - 276 pages
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. • THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...pitying human cares. WORDSWORTH. ELEGY. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - Literature - 1847 - 238 pages
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. Gray. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wiad slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...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,... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...Philippa conquers our hearts." LESSON XLI. Elegy in a Country Churchyard. — GRAY. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly...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 drony flight, And... | |
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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... 
