 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...more, Pope, 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 ploughman...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,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 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...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,... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...THE COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. ELEGY. x HE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wïnds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glknmering landscape on the sight, And aIl the air a solemn stillness holds, Save \there the beetle... | |
 | Classical philology - 1826 - 360 pages
...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 stilness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...ELEGY, 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 glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...weeps. ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. • This Epitaph was written at the request of Mr.Frederic Montagu,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...according to Ike original copy. THE curfew tolls — the knell of parting day ! The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...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,... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 286 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...Elegy written in a Country Churchyard.—GRAY. THE curfew tolls—the knell of parting day ;— The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The ploughman...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,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...according to the original copy. THE curfew tolls — the knell of parting day ! The lowing herd wind 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 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... 
