| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 Seiten
...myself a man. ELEGY WBITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. Tut 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. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1839 - 320 Seiten
...Churchyard, was thus made to do duty, after this fashion. 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 this is Christmas Eve, and here I be ! Now fades the glimmering landscape on "the sight, And all the... | |
| 1849 - 1188 Seiten
...remind us of the lovely picture sketched by Gray : — "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...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... | |
| Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 Seiten
...XIII. Elegy written in a Country Churchyard. 1. 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. 2. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air... | |
| Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 Seiten
...estimate ! ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. TH E curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...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... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 420 Seiten
...dew of 50 heaven. Jer. Taylor. 111. Gray's Elegy. 1 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. 2 Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 Seiten
...Reprinted according to the original copy. The curfew tolls—the knell of parting day! The lowing herd 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... | |
| Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 Seiten
...me there. AN ELEGY, 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...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... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 Seiten
...written in a Country Church Yard. — GRAY 1. 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. * Lea, a meadow, or {Jain. 2. Now fades the glimmering landscape on... | |
| John Comly - 1834 - 226 Seiten
...kindling o'er the face of ether One boundless blaze." et The curfew tolls, the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save, where the beetle wheels his drohy flight, And drowsy tinklings... | |
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