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
| John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of sucn as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms,... | |
| Henry Green - Law - 1858 - 170 pages
...landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels its droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant...complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Note 10, page 50. " A Daniel would have found his choler rising." As in the case of Eskgrove and Sir... | |
| England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering...tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that from yonder ivy -mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret... | |
| John Potter Hamilton - Falconry - 1860 - 362 pages
...is dim, And the loud shriek of sage Minerva's fowl Rattles around me her discordant hymn."—BYEON. "Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping...near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign."—GRAY'S Elegy. THE brown owl is similar to the tawny in its marks, differing only in its colour... | |
| Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pages
...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....distant folds; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r. The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wandering near her secret bow'r, Molest... | |
| James Thomson - Gift books - 1861 - 480 pages
...glimmering landscape on the sight. And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the heetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull...The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that... | |
| English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...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 droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distent folds. Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of... | |
| Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1862 - 558 pages
...holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds; 3. Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping...near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reipn. 4. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1863 - 304 pages
...IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. 1 -\ -, -j 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, wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...the rtvei Hint rolls at in foot." ELECT WRITTEN IN A. COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. 1 The Curfew tolls 2 the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds j Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such... | |
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