 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...  Poétique anglaise - Page 368by Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 pages
...; 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 drony flight, And... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds j Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such... | |
 | John Philip Newman - Eretz Israel - 1864 - 504 pages
...hour and such a scene as the plaintive bard has embalmed in immortal verse : ' ' The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds."1 A solitary light shone from the minaret of Hebron as we entered its ancient portal. " Strangers... | |
 | John Philip Newman - Eretz Israel - 1864 - 508 pages
...hour and such a scene as the plaintive bard has embalmed in immortal verse : "The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds."1 A solitary light shone from the minaret of Hebron as we entered its ancient portal. " Strangers... | |
 | Wise sayings - Maxims - 1864 - 394 pages
...; 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...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. EVENING wooed by Thetis. Sink, shining god — tired nature halts ; and parch'd Earth needs... | |
 | Lyrical gleanings - 1864 - 152 pages
...day, The lowing herds 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 drony flight, And... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1865 - 310 pages
...The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homewards plods his weary way. And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering... | |
 | Kate Gordon (of Fyvie.) - 1866 - 258 pages
...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...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds." 1. A celebrated whirlpool. 2. A town of Hindostan. 3. Destruction. 4. Not true. 5. An abstract.... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...day, The lowing herds 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 drony flight, And... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 256 pages
...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 holds ; Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And... | |
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