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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... "
An excursion to Windsor, in July 1810. Also A sail down the river Medway ... - Page 367
by John Evans - 1817
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 14

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 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...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...
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The beauties of the poets: a collection of moral and sacred poetry, compiled ...

Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony 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, wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: W. Thompson, Blair ...

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 686 pages
...the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his (Irony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r The moping owl does to the Moon complain Of such, as M-and'ring near her secret bow'r Molest...
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Poetical selections, consisting of the most approved pieces of our best ...

Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his (Irony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull 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 the secret bow'r, Molest...
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Rights of God, Written for the Benefit of Man: Or, the Impartiality of ...

Thomas Branagan - Bibliography - 1812 - 370 pages
...the lea, Tfre plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all...tinklings lull 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,...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...the lea ; The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all...tinklings lull the 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...
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Rights of God Written for the Benefit of Man: Or, the Impartiality of ...

Thomas Branagan - Charity - 1815 - 376 pages
...glimm'ring landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds. Save where the beetle wields his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull 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,...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 45

England - 1839 - 894 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...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...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony 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, Molest...
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Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 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...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...
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