Earlier, the speaker sees a plowman who "homeward plods his (*) weary way, / And leaves the world to darkness and to me."
This work's third and second stanzas describe a "moping owl" that complains to the moon and a beetle that "wheels his droning flight." Its fifteenth stanza makes a reference to John Hampden, as well as a "Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood." The last section of this work describes a character who "gave to Misery all he had, a tear." Earlier, the speaker sees a plowman who "homeward plods his (*) weary way, / And leaves the world to darkness and to me." For 10 points, name this work that teaches "the paths of glory lead but to the grave" and opens as "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day," an exemplar of graveyard poetry by Thomas Gray.
This work's third and second stanzas describe a "moping owl" that complains to the moon and a beetle that "wheels his droning flight.
“{Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard}”