 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 with...  The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth - Page 135by William Wordsworth - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 412 pages
...— To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said,...will make A lady of my own. Myself will to my darling he Both law and impulse ; and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 450 pages
...painted with a pencil dipped in morning dew. She realizes the fine description of Wordsworth: — " Three years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said,...shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own.'" Colin Clout is the poet himself. The " country lass," in the Tenth Canto, is supposed to be the lady... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. LUCY. THRKE years "she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said,...rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and boweiy Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain. She shall be sportive as the fawn, That,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - England - 1840 - 196 pages
...resting-place: " And Nature said, a lovelier flower On earth was never sown: Myself will to my darling be The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power Both law and impulse; and with me To kindle or restrain. The stars of midnight shall be dear To her;... | |
 | Childhood - 1841 - 384 pages
...me, mine own! Come death, and make me to my child at least in spirit known ! LUCY. WORDSWORTH. THREE years she grew in sun and shower: Then Nature said,...take, She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of mine own. " Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse, and with me The girl, in rock and plain,... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1842 - 412 pages
...singleness than where reference is incidentally made to the effect of scenery on the mind:— "Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said,...mine, and I will make A lady of my own! Myself will to the darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1842 - 654 pages
...for the government of a life led under the influence of natural objects and a natural piety : Three years she grew in sun and shower ; Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower On eanh was never sown ; This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and 1 will make A lady... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...the earth, (Am— »nd not till then— let my epitaph be written.— I bave done. 736* LUCT. Three years she grew, in sun, and shower, Then, Nature said,...be Both law, and impulse : and with me, The girl, on rock and plain, In earth, and heaven, in glade, and bowel, Shall feel an overseeing power, To kindle,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...whole human race. 5 Transmuted ill — ie evil changed by the power of patience into good. LUCY.1 THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said,...Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse :2 and with me3 The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...Tlicn. Nature sanl, " a lovelier flower. On earth, was never sown ; This child I. io myself, will mke; She shall be mine, and I will make — A lady of my own. Myself will, lo my darling, he Both law, and impulse : mid with me, The girl, on rook and plain, In earth, and heaven,... | |
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