 | William Linwood - College verse - 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...yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Hark... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 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...yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand' ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Hark... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 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...yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand' ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Hark... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - Literature - 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...yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain, Of such as wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 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...yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath... | |
 | 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...yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complaiu Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - English language - 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...yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath... | |
 | 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...yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath... | |
 | Religion - 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... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...; 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. Now fades the...distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wandering near her secret bow'r, Molest... | |
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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... 
