 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...  Lyrical gleanings from various authors - Page 83by Lyrical gleanings - 1864 - 128 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1847 - 276 pages
...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...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, And... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...life to ambition and sordid avarice. 33. Elegy written in a Country Churchyard. THE curfew tolls — the knell of parting day, — The lowing herds wind...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, And... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pages
...By the promise that God hath given." Gould. ELEGY WBITTEN IN A COUNTBY CHIJBCHTAHD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly...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, And... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...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...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, And... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - English language - 1848 - 56 pages
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward plods...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,... | |
 | Religion - 1849 - 614 pages
...picture sketched by Gray : — " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowlv o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary...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,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...Church-yard. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; 5 The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves...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,... | |
 | Scotland - 1849 - 844 pages
...the time incorrect — and a knell is not tolled for the parting, but for the parted — ' and leaves the world to darkness and to me.' 'Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight.' Here the incidents, instead of being progressive, fall back, and make the picture confused... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 602 pages
...the time incorrect — and a knell is not tolled for the parting, but for the parted — ' and leaves rous, playful, easily made happy, easily softened, enthusiastically fond of h sight.' Here the incidents, instead of being progressive, fall back, and make the picture confused... | |
 | England - 1849 - 822 pages
...the time incorrect — and a kneu is not tolled for the parting, bnt for the parted — ' and leaves the world to darkness and to me.' 'Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight.' Here the incidents, instead of being progressive, fall back, and make the picture confused... | |
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