 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homewards plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering...that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the ijoon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary... | |
 | John Philip Newman - Eretz Israel - 1864 - 508 pages
...: "The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. * * * * " Now fades...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds."1 A solitary light shone from the minaret of Hebron as we entered its ancient portal. " Strangers... | |
 | John Philip Newman - Eretz Israel - 1864 - 504 pages
...' ' The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. * * * * "Now fades...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds."1 A solitary light shone from the minaret of Hebron as we entered its ancient portal. " Strangers... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHDRCH-YASD.1 The Curfew tolls2 the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1865 - 310 pages
...The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homewards plods his weary way. And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering... | |
 | Max Kaluza - English language - 1911 - 422 pages
...Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard (1751): The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary... | |
 | Patrick Boyde - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 38 pages
...the opening of Gray's Elegy by heart: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds: and you will remember that Gray establishes the mood appropriate for his Elegy by linking the... | |
 | Stein Haugom Olsen - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 246 pages
...Churchyard', with FW Halt-son's comments: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea. The ploughman homeward plods...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds; It is true that cattle do not normally 'low' or 'wind' their way at sunset, and that 'drowsy... | |
 | H. G. Widdowson - Foreign Language Study - 1992 - 248 pages
...provoked) to enquire into its meaning for themselves. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds . . . Text A The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The herd is winding slowly o'er the lea,... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 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...the distant folds; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bow'r, Molest... | |
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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... 
