 The curfew tolls the knell of parting 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...  Chaucer to Burns - Page 263edited by - 1883Full view - About this book
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...Country Churchyard.—GRAY. THE curfew tolls—the knell of parting day ;— The lowing herd winds 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,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...Country Churchyard. — GRAY. THE curfew tolls — the knell of parting day ; — The lowing herd winds 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 Sroning flight,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...written in a Country Churchyard. — GRAY? THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward...leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight,. And all the air a solemn stillness holds ; Save where the beetle... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...written in a Country Churchyard. The curfew to'ls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds P.owly sight, And nil the air a solemn stillness holds. Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, Ami... | |
 | Religion - 1849 - 1188 pages
...lovely picture sketched by Gray : — "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds." How such a picture recalls the days of childhood and youth, when we, too, whose homes were... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...a Country Churchyard, — GRAY. THI 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 glimm'ring landscape on the sight', And all the air a solemn stillness holds'; Save where the beetle... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...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 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 drony flight, And... | |
 | John Comly - 1834 - 226 pages
...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 homeward plods...leaves the world to darkness and to me. ' Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save, where the beetle... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...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 homeward plods...tinklings lull the distant folds: Save that from yonder ivy-rnantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering to her secret bower;... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. (GRAY.) The curfew tolls' — | the knell of parting day; ! | The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea' ; | The ploughman homeward plods...the world to darkness, and to me,. | Now fades the glimm'ring landscape" on the sight', | And all the air a solemn stillness holds', | Save where the... | |
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