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" ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. 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 Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland - Page 336
by Abraham Mills - 1851
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Half-hours with our sacred poets [an anthology] ed. by A.H. Grant

Half hours - 1863 - 408 pages
...craving after foreign help perhaps shows the want of the internal impulse." ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTEY CHURCHYARD. The curfew tolls the knell of parting...tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy -mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret...
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...ELECT 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...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds j Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such...
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 pages
...holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; 3 Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping...such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her aucicnt solitary reign. 4 Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in...
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The Revised Lesson Book for Standard I(-vi) of the Revised Code of the ...

Great Britain. Committee on Education - 1864 - 200 pages
...WJUTTUK Uf A COTTUTBT CHTTECH-TAED. THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret hower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves...
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Wise Sayings of the Great and Good

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...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. EVENING wooed by Thetis. Sink, shining god — tired nature halts ; and parch'd Earth needs...
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Choice specimens of English literature, selected and arranged by T.B. Shaw ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...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. Now fades the glimmering...yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the ijoon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath...
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From Dan to Beersheba: Or the Land of Promise as it Now Appears, Including a ...

John Philip Newman - 1864 - 504 pages
...' ' 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...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds."1 A solitary light shone from the minaret of Hebron as we entered its ancient portal. " Strangers...
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From Dan to Beersheba: Or the Land of Promise as it Now Appears, Including a ...

John Philip Newman - 1864 - 508 pages
...: "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...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds."1 A solitary light shone from the minaret of Hebron as we entered its ancient portal. " Strangers...
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Lyra sacra, being a collection of hymns ancient and modern, odes and ...

Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1865 - 310 pages
...The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ; The ploughman homewards 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. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering...
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Festival of Song: A Series of Evenings with the Poets

Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 pages
...music of some of the stanzas : — The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. * * * Beneath those rugged elms,...
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