 | William Herbert - 1853 - 234 pages
...robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. SOLEMN DESCRIPTION. 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. -Two nights together,... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...unseen by all, The sweet Lavinia. THOMSON. 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 his weary way, And leaves the world — to darkness and to me. Now fades the... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 pages
...gallant youth ! this marble tells the rest, ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. TUB 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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1855 - 786 pages
...alternate, and are arranged in stanzas. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea ; The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness arid to me. — (JRAY. RHYME ROYAL. § 670. Seven lines of heroics, with the... | |
 | John Warner Barber - Belgium - 1855 - 608 pages
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of pBrting 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 272 pages
...sing, And keep my lady from her rubbers. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. 1 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. 2 Now fades the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 276 pages
...sing, And keep my lady from her rubbers. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. 1 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. 2 Now fades the... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pages
...ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting 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... | |
 | Collection - 1856 - 120 pages
...sweetest rest, Brave industry's reward. ANON. Elegy written 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. Now fades the glittering... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...succession of poets after Milton's time. ELEOY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD.1 The Curfew tolls2 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... | |
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THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind 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 stillness... 
