 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1868 - 526 pages
...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...distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wandering near her secret bow'r, Molest... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, 5 And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings...ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain 10 Of such, as wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Heneath... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 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...owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering neur her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Bencuth those rugged elms, that yew-tree's... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1869 - 124 pages
...LIBRARY - >- LEM*X AN» •('. i CM HE 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 : Yonder ivy-mantled tower. ГО К с. W YORK FOBLIC LIBRARY А* ГОР., Lf M*X ANB riLOEN... | |
 | E. Wadham - 1869 - 176 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.— GRAY. The following is an imitation of Dante's verse ; a new rhyme always beginning before... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings...moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bovver, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where... | |
 | 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...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds: and you will remember that Gray establishes the mood appropriate for his Elegy by linking the... | |
 | 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...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds; It is true that cattle do not normally 'low' or 'wind' their way at sunset, and that 'drowsy... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...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...the distant folds; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bow'r, Molest... | |
 | Brian Short - 1992 - 260 pages
...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...the distant folds; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled towY The mopeing owl does to the rruxm complain Of such, as wandVing near her secret bow'r. Molest... | |
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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... 
