Thomas Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard' was a poem of uncommon power on grief and the afterlife. ILLUSTRATION: Christopher Serra ...

Elegy in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray. 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 ...

Gray's Elegy In A Country Churchyard was once a truly famous poem, known to many people who didn't normally read poetry through generations of schoolbooks. We are not as fond of sententious poetry ...

"Gray's Elegy" is a poem that most older adults in the UK can quote, if only a few lines. In my ideal school curriculum, it would still be required reading. Musical, eloquent, moral, the "Elegy ...

ASLEEP IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. Share full article. Dec. 1, 1889. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from December 1, 1889, Page 18 Buy Reprints.