 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pages
...ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman 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... | |
 | Collection - 1856 - 120 pages
...sweetest rest, Brave industry's reward. ANON. Elegy written in a Country Church-yard. 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 glittering... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...succession of poets after Milton's time. ELEOY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD.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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 pages
...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. § 531. Seven lines of heroics, with the last... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pages
...out his light and go to bed. • 1. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. 2. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1857 - 584 pages
...more home-spun Saxon thanf "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds riowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way. And leaves the world to darkness and to me." ""When a man grows eloquent, it Is the Saxon clement that lends wings... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1859 - 422 pages
...only God ! There is no God beside! The curfew tolls the knell of parting day; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. EXERCISE ON RATE. Select a sentence, and deliver it as slow as may... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pages
...succession of poets after Milton's time. 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... | |
 | England - 1860 - 532 pages
...Will dry up every drop of rain. I.1XDOR. AVIIITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHUBCH-YABJl. THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly...The plowman 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... | |
 | Bernhard Freiherr von Tauchnitz - 1860 - 468 pages
...sing, And keep my lady from her rubbers. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. 1 THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homewards plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. 2 Now fades the... | |
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THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman 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... 
