 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...  English grammar and composition - Page 156by Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1851 - 236 pages
...Elegiacs. — Five measures, xa; with regularly alternate rhymes, and arranged in stanzas. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The plpughman homewards plods hia weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. — GRAY. 9. Rhymes... | |
 | Charles Henry Knox - 1852 - 928 pages
...mischief. I so constantly repeat to myself that beautiful stanza of Gray's" — " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The shepherd homewards plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. " Now fades the... | |
 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 pages
...ffilegg toritten in a ©ountrj? CCi)u«f)sar&. 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... | |
 | Hyde Clarke - 1853 - 180 pages
...rhymes alternate. These are eomnoaly arranged in stanzas, or sets of verses. " The сurfew tolls " the knell ' of parting day ; The lowing herds ' wind " slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman ' homewards " plods his weary ' way, And leaves the world " to solitude ' and me." Eight syllable measures... | |
 | William Herbert - 1853 - 234 pages
...grace As mercy does. SOLEMN DESCRIPTION. 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. -Two nights together, had these gentlemen, Marcellus and... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 200 pages
...JOHN MARTIN. Lano*i Oct. 10th, l-.u THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, rrrSave that,... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...o'er the globe, Companions of the spring. ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly...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... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pages
...life to ambition and sordid avarice. 33. Elegy written in a Country Churchyard. THE curfew tolls — the knell of parting day, — The lowing herds wind...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... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 pages
...ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. TUB 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... | |
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