...stanza seldom consists of less than four verses : as, " 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." The most common kind -of verse used in English poetry, is that which,...

...stanco, Et a me lascia il mondo ea la fose' ombra. 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. 1. II. Л Qpfá Tf VKк'xovTHi, IS óXíтta pаKpà Kai CXai, HvíSf...

...fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And nil the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy 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 bower,...

...mugissans ; Le laboureur lassé regagne sa chaumière ; r. 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. Qpfá re (TKiooiVTcH) n'» oAtrea ¡шкра Kai v\ai, HWÔe' $ftnreo4a...

...Churchyard, was thus made to do duty, after this fashion. 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 this is Christmas Eee, and here I be ! Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the...

...name 1 Gray stole from this the id«a of his Elegy ! " 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 leave* the world to darkness and to mo. " Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does...

...train be there ELEOY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle...

...LXXVIII. Elegy in a Country Church-Yard. — GRAY. 1 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. 2 Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air...

...and all mankind. O high example, constancy divine ! THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman...tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantl'd tow'r, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bow'r,...

...and weeps. ELEGY, 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...leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle...