 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
 | 1849 - 1188 Seiten
...lovely picture sketched by 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... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 Seiten
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. TH E 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... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 Seiten
...a Country Churchyard, — GRAY. THI curfew tolls', the knell of parting day'; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea'; The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 Seiten
...GRAY'S ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YAR&. Reprinted according to the 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... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 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...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... | |
 | John Comly - 1834 - 226 Seiten
...of ether One boundless blaze." et The curfew tolls, the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save, where the beetle wheels his drohy flight, And drowsy tinklings... | |
 | 1840 - 372 Seiten
...ELEOY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. 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... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 Seiten
...O high example, constancy divine ! THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 Seiten
...COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. (GRAY.) The curfew tolls' — | the knell of parting day; ! | The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea' ; | The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 Seiten
...Armenia sunt quse mugiunt. B. ELEGY. 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... | |
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