 | Nicolas H. Nelson - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 267 pages
...The first four stanzas set the scene and establish an aura of somber melancholy: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, meadow The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades... | |
 | Michael Paschalis - Comparative literature - 2007 - 216 pages
...Eclogues. Especially relevant are the opening stanzas of the Elegy (lines 1-8, 13-16): The curfew tolls the knell of parting day The lowing herd wind slowly o'er...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... | |
 | Art Knoebel, Reinhard Laubenbacher, Jerry Lodder, David Pengelley - Mathematics - 2007 - 340 pages
...England was predominantly rural, with industry scattered throughout small villages. 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. Thomas Gray (1716-1771),... | |
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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... 
