 | Frederick Teague Cansick - Epitaphs - 1872 - 346 pages
...soonest has the least to pay. 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 in darkness and to me. There is another and a better world. " The world can neither give... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD* 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... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...WRITTEN IX 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, 5 And all the air... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1873 - 814 pages
...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 and to me. — GRAY. RHYME ROYAL. § 670. Seven lines of heroics, with the last... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1873 - 614 pages
...There is no God beside 1 2. 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. 3. Roll on, thou deep and dark-blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1873 - 40 pages
...FORMIS EXCUDEBAT С - 1 . CLAY 1 he curfeu 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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English language - 1874 - 412 pages
...grant such high degree 1 47. 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. — Gray. 48. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - English language - 1874 - 336 pages
...concrete of victory. FT, 3. — 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 from the sight, And all the air... | |
 | Noble Butler - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1874 - 342 pages
...second with the fourth ; as, " 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." Remark. — This is the stanza of Gray's "Elegy in a Country Church-yarrl."... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...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. 306 "I like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls 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... 
