 | Young gentleman - 1807 - 314 pages
...in a Country Cluirch Yard. JL HE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds ftowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs and to me. Now fades the glimmering landfcape on the fight, And all the air a... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...THOMAS GRAY. ELEGY. Written ia a Country Churck-Yard. ^HE 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 glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. [GRAY.] 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. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...reigns. AN ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. GRAY. 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 glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...WRITTEN IH A COUNTR\ CntRCU-YAHD. 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 uie. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...written in a Country Churchyard,— THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day j 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 glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...woods again. 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 homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to met Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a... | |
 | England - 1839 - 894 pages
...name 1 Gray stole from this the idea of his Elegy I " 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 tin? world to darkness and to mo. " Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air... | |
 | England - 1854 - 758 pages
...extent." The first stanza of the Elegy — " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing held winds slowly o'er the lea. The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me : " is thus rendered by Mr Smith : — " Rettulit cxsequias lucis vox... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...to complete the incantation : — The CCRFEW tolls the knell of parting 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 ! A'OUJ fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air... | |
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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... 
