 | Religion - 1849
...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 holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 240 pages
...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 holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And... | |
 | English essays - 1836
...incorrect ; the day had long finished. But if the word ' curfew' is taken simply for the ' evening-bell,' then also is the time incorrect ; and a knell is not...the parted. ' And leaves the world to darkness and to me.' ' Now/ode* the glimmering landscape on the sight.' Here the incidents, instead of being progressive,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 392 pages
...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 air a solemn stillness holds— Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838
...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 holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 348 pages
...The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward wends 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 holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight. And... | |
 | English poetry - 1840
...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 holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 118 pages
...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 holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And... | |
 | Cam river - 1841
...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 holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 308 pages
...day, The lowing herds 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 air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the heetle wheels his droning flight, And... | |
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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... 
