 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
 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 pages
...WILLIAM COLLINS. EVENING. Solemness of 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... | |
 | James Roscoe Mongan - 1864 - 300 pages
...Elegiac Stanza of English poetry ; as, ' 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.' — Gray. 423. Of six feet ; (Iambic Hexameter.) ' If... | |
 | Simon Kerl - 1865 - 182 pages
...as you would analyze a simple sentence.) 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. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark, unfathomed... | |
 | 436 pages
...which the matchless Elegy was written — " 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." Buckinghamshire has been eminently the home of poets.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...EI.EGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHDRCH-YASD.1 The Curfew tolls2 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... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pages
...dwell a weeping hermit there ! cLl)omas ©ran. 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... | |
 | Tina Howe - 1984 - 100 pages
...(loud and clear with GARDNER'S inflection) "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." MAGS. HE SAID IT ... HE SAID IT! ... AND IN YOUR VOICE!... | |
 | Patrick Boyde - 1985 - 38 pages
...know 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 his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all... | |
 | Stein Haugom Olsen - 1987 - 246 pages
...Churchyard', with FW Halt-son's comments: 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... | |
 | John Foster, Gordon Dennis - 1995 - 136 pages
...Buckinghamshire. 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 all... | |
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