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 solemn stillness... New National First[ -fifth] Reader - Page 435by Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884Full view - About this book
| England - 1849 - 802 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... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...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...distant folds : Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bow'r, Molest... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 196 pages
...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 holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And... | |
| English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings...distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl does to the moon complain Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 584 pages
...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 tke sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bow'r, Molest... | |
| William Oxberry - Theater - 1824 - 402 pages
...my end. ELEGY, WIRTTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. The cui few tolls the knell of parting- da,y. The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman...distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl doth to the moon complaiti Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bew'r, Molest... | |
| Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...variation in their proper place. — MASON. The ploughman 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 a solemn stillness holds, which find a mirrmir in every mind ; and with sentiments,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...A COUNTBY С'ППК'НУ ЛК 1,. I'm: eurfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind t still bear up, and steer Right onward. What supports me? dost thou ask: the, world to darkness and to me. Nov. fades the glimmering landseape on the sight, :Vnd all the air... | |
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