 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...  The Comic Annual - Page viiby Thomas Hood - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...Critical Essays, Svo. 1785.] JL HE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day (k), 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...which he supposes to be employed on the occasion." 1 HE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day (r), 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...reigns. AN ELEGY WRITTEN IN A 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 his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...CHAP. X. Elegy -written in a Country Church" . Yard. JL HE 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...occasion." See Scott's Critical Essays, 8~no. 1785.] THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, r 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...Written in a Country Church-Yard. *TM1E curfew tollsj the knell of parting day, -^- The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea. The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves Ihe world to darkness and to me. * Bagged, *. e. the face of a witch or hap. The epithet hazard... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...THOMAS GRAY. ELEGY. Written ia a Country Churck-Yard. ^HE 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 glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. [GRAY.] THE curfew tolls the knell of parting 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 landscape on the sight, And all the... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...reigns. AN ELEGY WRITTEN IN A 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 his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...WRITTEN IH A COUNTR\ CntRCU-YAHD. THE curfew tolls' the knell of parting 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 uie. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the... | |
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