 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 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...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... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward wends 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 wheels his drony flight. And... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...ELEOY 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 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-rnantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...Armenia sunt quse mugiunt. B. 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...MACAULAY. ELEGY 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... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 324 pages
...Where melancholy Friendship hends, and wesps. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. 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 heetle wheels his droning flight, And... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...the time incorrect — and a knell is not tolled for the parting, but for the parted — ' and leaves the world to darkness and to me.' ' Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight.' Here the incidents, instead of being progressive, fall back, and make the picture confused... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1844 - 684 pages
...day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward ploda his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the nir a solemn t.fillnet>ft holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods hie weary way, And leaves sight, And all the air л solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,... | |
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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... 
