 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 Seiten
...thee ! GRAY. 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...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... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1848 - 56 Seiten
...Addison. XIX. ELESY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman...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,... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 Seiten
...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...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 Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 Seiten
...WBITTEN IN A COUNTBY CHIJBCHTAHD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
 | 1848 - 530 Seiten
...a tone full of pathos and expression, began thus: " 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." My first emotion of surprise gave way in a moment to intense sympathy,... | |
 | 1849 - 614 Seiten
...picture sketched by Gray : — " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowlv o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary...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,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 Seiten
...Church-yard. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; 5 The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves...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,... | |
 | Peter Bullions - 1849 - 252 Seiten
...pentameter lines rhyming alternately ; as — Thg cur | IV w tOUs | thg knell | Bf part | Ing 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. 1090. The Spenserian stanza (which takes its name from the poet Spenser)... | |
 | Max Kaluza - 1911 - 422 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Patrick Boyde - 1985 - 38 Seiten
...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...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... | |
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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... 
