 | English poetry - 1869 - 328 pagine
...a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. II. LUCY. THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower...was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take ; 293 She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. " Myself will to my darling be Both law... | |
 | 1869 - 436 pagine
...eyes survey'd. CLXXIX W. Wordruxnlh THE EDUCATION OF NATURE THREE years she grew in sun and shower j Then Nature said, ' A lovelier flower On earth was never sown : This child I to myself will fake ; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. ' Myself will to my darling be Both law... | |
 | 1867 - 194 pagine
...played in sun and shade, Then Percy said — "A lovelier maid At croquet ne'er was seen: This girl I to myself will take, She shall be mine, and I will make For her a croquet green. " She shall be playful as the cat That, wild with glee, 'upon the mat Or on... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1875 - 362 pagine
...and make beautiful one little maiden : Three years she grew in snn and shower ; Then Nature-said — "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown : This...in glade and bower, Shall feel an over-seeing power i To kindle and restrain." There is no need to quote the rest, it is well-known ; but nothing can be... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1899 - 356 pagine
...has nothing like it in the language r — Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, e lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This child...make A lady of my own. Myself will to my darling be th law and impulse ; and with me The girl in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower,... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 1988 - 348 pagine
...under the influence of nature, with whom alone she enjoys immediate and entire intimacy.1 Nature said. This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. In effect, Wordsworth shows Nature undertaking a controlled experiment, with a selected specimen of... | |
 | Richard Condon - 1992 - 310 pagine
...face which had been William Wordsworth's as he softly spoke the poetry. Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On...shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own." He mooned up at her, his eyes as pleading as a dachshund's. "Wordsworth certainly wasn't much of a... | |
 | Susan Eilenberg - 1992 - 302 pagine
...of allegory, greatest of ventriloquists.27 He is also King of the Underworld, his opening words — A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child...She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own — suggesting echoes of the Persephone myth, filtered perhaps through Paradise Lost: Not that fair... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pagine
...OAEL-2; OBEV; OBNC; TrGrPo IV. Three years she grew in sun and shower 48 Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On...was never sown; This Child I to myself will take; (1. 1 -4) POETRY QUOTATIONS V. A slumber did my spirit seal 49 She seemed a thing that could not feel... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pagine
...cried, 'If Lucy should be dead!' 'Three years she grew in sun and shower' Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On...impulse: and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, 10 In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain. 'She... | |
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THREE years she grew in sun and shower ; Then Nature said : " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. " Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse ; and... 
