 | Salem Town - 1850 - 372 sider
...holds ; Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; 3. Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping...her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign: 4. Beneath these rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap,... | |
 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - 1850 - 630 sider
...but by the Europeans engaged in the fur-trade. THE WHITE, BARN, OR SCHREECH OWL. (Srix flammea.) " from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping Owl does...secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign." GaAT. THIS bird is about the size of a pigeon. Its beak, hooked at the end, is more than an inch and... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 472 sider
...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...her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. and facilitates, in a great degree, our conquest over them, and the infro quency of which is the caase... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 sider
...Stoke Pogeis Church, and Tomb of Gray. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds e! H k* k* "l* Alolest her ancient solitary reign. tury. His works are still preserved, and his memory held I high... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 sider
...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...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Save that, from... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 sider
...The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,8 And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering...droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.8 Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as,... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 sider
...The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the le;i, The ploughman homeward plods his wearv way, And leaves the world — to darkness and to me. Now fades the...bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath these rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap PJach in... | |
 | William Ware - 1852 - 170 sider
...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...secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign." And, in the words of Bryant : "Forme, I lie Languidly in the shade, where the thick turf, Yet virgin... | |
 | William Ware - 1852 - 162 sider
...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...secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign." And, in the words of Bryant: "For me, I lie Languidly in the shade, where the thick turf, Yet virgin... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 sider
...welcome peaceful evening in. Cowper. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods...her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Gray. It was an evening bright and still, As ever blushed on wave or bower, Smiling from heaven, as... | |
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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... 
