 | Amal Asfour, Dr Paul Williamson, Paul Williamson - Art - 1999 - 325 pages
...the churchyard, evoke a scene not dissimilar to that painted by Gainsborough: 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. 82 The strong presence... | |
 | Stephanie Sandler - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 365 pages
...Reading Russian Pastoral 47 Gray's Elegy 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 plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering... | |
 | Robert L. Mack - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 718 pages
...the poem's solitary observer among the sights and sounds of a rural church-yard: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly...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... | |
 | Sarah Pratt - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 316 pages
...Country Churchyard" becomes not just a setting, but a statement about perception. 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... | |
 | Liz Carlyle - Fiction - 2000 - 448 pages
...through the dog-eared pages, ceremoniously cleared his throat, and solemnly began: "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way—" "Och! Nae sa fast, m'lord!" interrupted Old Angus, waving... | |
 | Kent Gramm - History - 2001 - 344 pages
...—John Milton, November 1637 APPENDIX III 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 Plow-man homeward plods his weary Way, And leaves the World to Darkness, and to me. Now fades the glimmering... | |
 | Leon Waldoff - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 180 pages
...present tense ("The curfew tolls the 7. Paul Sheats, The Making of Wordsworth's Poetry, 1 785-1 798, 230. knell of parting day, / The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea"). But they do not figure the speakers presence in such a prominent way. As Mary Jacobus has pointed out,... | |
 | Bill Moore, David Booth - Children's poetry - 2003 - 160 pages
...fiery tail, I saw a blazing comet." 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. Thomas Gray This sort of verse is easy to phrase. The difficulty here,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Fiction - 2003 - 357 pages
...in a Country Churchyard" (1751). 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 the world to darkness and to me. ?«*••; 5 Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And... | |
 | Bob Garfield - Business & Economics - 2003 - 256 pages
...worst-laid plans. But in the hands of an artist, it can be the stuff of magic. 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. That's the first... | |
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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 solemn stillness... 
