 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...  A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets - Seite 172von Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 715 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 Seiten
...LIBRARY A»TOH, LXNOX AN* TILMM rOUNBATlOMB ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly...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... | |
 | 1826 - 310 Seiten
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 Seiten
...ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And drowsy tinkHngs lull the distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl does to the... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 Seiten
...GRAY'S ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. Reprinted according to Ike original copy. THE curfew tolls — the knell of parting day ! The lowing herd wind slowly...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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 Seiten
...God, till it returns like the useful bee, loaden with a blessing and the dew of EXERCISES. [EX.111. 2 Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And...drony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; 3 Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl does to the Moon complain Of such... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 Seiten
...Country Churchyard.—GRAY. THE curfew tolls—the knell of parting day ;— The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - 420 Seiten
...written in a Country Churchyard. — GRAY? THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward...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 (inklings... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 Seiten
...Country Churchyard. — GRAY. THE curfew tolls — the knell of parting day ; — The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - 484 Seiten
...CAMPAGNE. THE COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. ELEGY. 1 HF Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 Seiten
...ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE curfew tolk the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
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