 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
 | Alice Cary - American literature - 1859 - 374 pages
...of any process of reasoning. Since the beginning of time nature has said of every one of them — " This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own." And if each were permitted to follow her instincts, and rely upon her intuitions, there would not be... | |
 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 pages
...And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. LlJCY. THREE years she grew, in sun, and shower, Then Nature said,...darling, be Both law and impulse : and with me The girl, on rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power, To kindle... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1886 - 588 pages
...idea is more fully formulated in Lucy, perhaps, than in any other one of his poems : — • "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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...the last green field That Lucy's eyes survey'd. W. Wordsworth CLXXIX THE EDUCATION OF NATURE Three years she grew in sun and shower ; Then Nature said,...and plain In earth and heaven, in glade and bower To kindle or restrain. Shall feel an overseeing power ' She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1862 - 398 pages
...and incisive, is it not ? Vale, iterumque vale ! IV. CONFESSION. CHAPTER I. EFFIE ON THE ESK. Three years she grew in sun and shower ; Then Nature said — " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; The child I to myself will take : She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own." TT was a... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pages
...and coloured with the regenerative power of his genius. His greatest work is "The Excursion."] Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said,...darling, be Both law and impulse: and with me The girl, on rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power, To kindle... | |
 | 1863 - 514 pages
...to say, until Mr. Charles Kingsley said to himself, we will suppose, as Nature of Wordsworth's Lucy, This child I to myself will take, She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own of her. Gibbon, probably, on the strength of his Decline and Fall, and Goldsmith, certainly, on the... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1863 - 514 pages
...Charles Kingsley said to himself, we will suppose, as Nature of Wordsworth's Lucy, This child I to mjself will take, She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own of her. Gibbon, probably, on the strength of his Decline and Fall, and Goldsmith, certainly, on the... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1864 - 358 pages
...years she grew in sun and shower. Then Nature laid, a lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; Tlns child I to myself will take, She shall be 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,... | |
 | 1865 - 448 pages
...and never ending; Of serious faith, and inward glee ; That was the song, — the song for me ! 1608. X. THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature...in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power " She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild with glee across the lawn Or up the mountain springs... | |
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