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
| James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 Seiten
...Elegy 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 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... | |
| 1847 - 312 Seiten
...Grandeur.i From Gray's 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... | |
| Book - 1847 - 216 Seiten
...pitying human cares. WORDSWORTH. 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... | |
| Book - 1847 - 206 Seiten
...pitying human cares. WORDSWORTH. 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... | |
| Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 Seiten
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. Gray. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wiad 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... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1847 - 276 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 Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 Seiten
...ELEGY WBITTEN IN A COUNTBY CHIJBCHTAHD. THE curfew tolls 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... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1848 - 56 Seiten
...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... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 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... | |
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