 ELEGY 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 his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on...  Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature - Page 363by Robert Chambers - 1902Full view - About this book
 | Religion - 1849 - 1188 pages
...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...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds." How such a picture recalls the days of childhood and youth, when we, too, whose homes were... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1833 - 304 pages
...beelle wheels his droning flight, , , •{ And drowsy tinkl^ngs lull the distant folds; — • . • 3. Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, ' '' . The...moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower,'1' Molest her ancient, solitary reign. • ' 4. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...fades 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...moping owl does to the moon complain' Of such as', wand'ring near her secret bower', Molest her ancient', solitary reign'. Beneath these rugged elms'... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 278 pages
...Country Churchyard. — GRAY. THE curfew tolls — the knell of parting day ; — The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward plods...The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandeiing near her secret bower, Molest her ancient, solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that... | |
 | John Comly - 1834 - 226 pages
...the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save, where the beetle wheels his drohy flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds; Save...The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient, solitary reign. " il Such evil sin hath wrought;... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...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...complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Disturb her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...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...tinklings lull the distant folds: Save that from yonder ivy-rnantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering to her secret bower;... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...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...moping owl does to the moon complain , | Of such as, wand'ring near Aer secret bower, | Molest her ancient, solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms' ;... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1842 - 386 pages
...important in rhyme, even when it does not coincide with the sentential, as to merit another example : — Save, that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping...to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her seeret bower, Molest her ancient, solitary reign. Remarks. — The final pause at " complain," takes... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 328 pages
...glimmering landscape on the sight. And all the air a solemn stiliness holds, 8ave where the heetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull...tower The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such a*, wand'ring near her secret hower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged eims,... | |
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