 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 - Page 172by Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 715 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1849 - 320 pages
...Grandeur.1 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... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...tide he plunged to endless night. XVII. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd wind slowly...the world to darkness — and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the ah- a solemn stillness holds ; Save whore the beetle... | |
 | Eduard Fiedler - 1850 - 768 pages
...To close the face of things. Gray, elegy. 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... | |
 | English language - 1851 - 278 pages
...ELEGY, 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 011 the sight* ' And all the air a solemn stillness holds, .. J Save where the... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. v 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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...ELEGY 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...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... | |
 | William Chambers - Children's poetry - 1851 - 200 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...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 Russell - Elocution - 1851 - 392 pages
...deep Low pitch of utterance : 1. 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 from the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle... | |
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