 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 psl.
...ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting dav, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - 402 psl.
...da,y. 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...distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl doth to the moon complaiti Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bew'r, Molest... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 psl.
...ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds 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, And... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 psl.
...fades the glimmering landseape on the sight, :Vnd all the air a soleum stillness holds, Save where the s aie moon eomplain Of sueh as, wandering near her seeret bower, Molest her aneient solitary reign. Beneath... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 psl.
...written in a country church-yard. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 psl.
...highly claims preservation. I shall therefore give them as a variation in their proper place. — MASON. The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves...and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, 5 And all -the air a solemn stillness holds, which find a mirrmir in every mind ; and with sentiments,... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 psl.
...THE COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. ELEGY. x HE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wïnds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glknmering landscape on the sight, And aIl the air a solemn stillness holds, Save \there the beetle... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 psl.
...ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 psl.
...Where melancholy Friendship bends, and weeps. ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly...ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. • This Epitaph was written at the request of Mr.Frederic Montagu,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 psl.
...GRAY'S ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. Reprinted according to the original copy. THE curfew tolls — the knell of parting day ! The lowing herd wind slowly...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,... | |
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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... 
