 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
 | William Chambers - 1858 - 378 pages
...as in heroics ; but the rhymes are alternate, and divide the poem into quatrains or stanzas of four lines : The cu'r|few tolls | the knell | of pa'r|ting...the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. The Spenserian stanza is a form of versification popularised... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...sweeps, And perish in the boundless deeps. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUSTBT CIIURCHYARD. 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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...others are, to feel, and know myself a man. 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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 pages
...common heroics, except that the lines regularly alternate, and are arranged in stanzas. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea ; The plowman homeward plods his weary way. And leaves the world to darkness and to me. — G&AY. RHYME ROYAL.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1858 - 574 pages
...loose traces from the furrow came, Poetical Imitations and Similarities. 109 Gray has The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way. Warton has made an observation on this passage in Comus ; and observes further that it is a classical... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pages
...ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD.1 The Curfew tolls 2 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... | |
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pages
...College. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYAED. 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... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham, Mary Caroline Maberly - 1861 - 164 pages
...Five measures, as before; 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 ploughman homewards plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. — GRAY. h. Rhymes Royal.... | |
 | Eduard Fiedler, Karl Sachs - 1861 - 766 pages
...In circle following circle gatlicrs ronnd To dose tbe face of tbings. Gray, elegy. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea Now fiides the glimmering lundscape ÖD the sight And all the alr a totem» stillness holds, Save wliere... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...HERVEY. (SItgg fantien in H (Emintrg Cjri 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... | |
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