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" And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds... "
Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for ... - Page 22
edited by - 1796 - 1008 pages
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Pieces selected from the Italian poets, by A. Isola, and tr. into Engl ...

Agostino Isola - English poetry - 1784 - 140 pages
...IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. i THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day-, The lowing herd wind flowly o'er the lea; The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknels and to me. Now fades the glimmering landfcape on the fight, And all the air a...
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The Muse's Pocket Companion: A Collection of Poems

English poetry - 1785 - 316 pages
...COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. BY Mr. GAA Y. THE curfew tells the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind flowly o'er the lea) The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefa and to me. Now fades the glimmering landfcape on the fight, And all the air a...
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Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...tow'r away, And mingle with the blaze of day." 44An Elegy, written in a Country ClurcbYard. GRAY. HPHE tion vain : he faw A Turtle ruftling in the ftraw...her callow brood flic hungj And fundly thus addicli wearv way, And leaves the world to darknels and to me. Now fades the glimmering landfcapc on the fight,...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray: With the Life of the Author

Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1798 - 130 pages
...IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. 'T'HE curfew tolls} the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind ftowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs and to me. 4 Now fades the glimm'ring landfcape on the fight, And all the air a folemn ftillnefs holds, Save where...
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Moore. Cawthorne. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Mallet. Akenside. Gray ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 512 pages
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE Curfew tolls* the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind flowly oe'r the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs яла to me. Now fa'des the glimmering landfcape on the fight, And all the air a folemn ilillnefsholUs,...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 8

Great Britain - 1804 - 540 pages
...Л*Р BY MR. GRAY. r I ^ HE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, _£_ The lowing herd wind flowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darknefs and to me. Kow fades the glimmering landfcape on the fight, And all the air a folemn ftillnefs holds, Save where...
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The grave, a poem. To which are added An elegy in a country church-yard, by ...

Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...WRITTEN IN COUNTRr CHURCH-TARD. T. HE 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 landscape on the sight, And all the air a...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...Country Church-yard. BY GRAY. 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...
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Morality of Fiction: Or, An Inquiry Into the Tendency of Fictitious ...

Hugh Murray - Fiction - 1805 - 190 pages
...opposite tone of sentiment. 2. 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. Here the two rhymes, -way, me, immediately following each other, and...
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Morality of Fiction: Or, An Inquiry Into the Tendency of Fictitious ...

Hugh Murray - Fiction - 1805 - 188 pages
...opposite tone of sentiment. 2. 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. Here the two rhymes, .way, me, immediately following each other, and...
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