The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds 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... The book of celebrated poems - Side 194af Book - 1854 - 448 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| George Merriam - 1828 - 286 sider
...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...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as,... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 sider
...Reprinted according to the original copy. THE curfew tolls — the knell of parting day ! The lowing herd wind 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 - 1828 - 320 sider
...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,... | |
| Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - 484 sider
...CAMPAGNE. THE COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. ELEGY. 1 HF 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. Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as,... | |
| William Scott - 1829 - 420 sider
...as now, thy gift of sleep. X. — Elegy written in a Country Churchyard. — GRAY? THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herds wind slowly...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... | |
| John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 sider
...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,... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 sider
...with bloody hands the tissue of thy line." ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE curfew tolk the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 sider
...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... | |
| 1849 - 1188 sider
...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... | |
| 1844 - 630 sider
...but as I could never succeed with them, I give you no opinion on such preparations. " The beetle hums the knell of parting day ; The lowing herds wind slowly...lea ; The ploughman homeward plods his weary way." Thomas will take care of the rods and lines ; the latter especially, which should be well dried, ere... | |
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