 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...  A Collection of Eighteenth Century Verse - Pagina 250geredigeerd door - 1907 - 484 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pagina’s
...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...distant folds. Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pagina’s
...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...distant folds; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the onoon complain Of such, as wandering near her secret '• bower, Molest... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 pagina’s
...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...folds: Save that , from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pagina’s
...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...distant folds; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The mopeing owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pagina’s
...fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 pagina’s
...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...folds : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the Moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient... | |
 | 1839 - 894 pagina’s
...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...distant folds. " Save that from yonder ivy.mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pagina’s
...fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the Beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings...distant folds :— Save that from yonder ivy-mantled TOW'B The moping Owl does to the Moon complain, Of such as wand'ring near her secret bow'r Molest her... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 pagina’s
...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...distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient... | |
 | 1821 - 270 pagina’s
...fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds ; Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings...distant folds. Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain, Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient... | |
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