 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...  John Ruskin: A Study - Page 8by Robert Percival Downes - 1890 - 119 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 560 pages
...unsubstantial, fairy place That is fit home for thee ! A HEHORT. 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 1 will make A lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Literary Criticism - 1875 - 374 pages
...and make beautiful one little maiden: 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 588 pages
...yet So pure sulïraunt was lier wit. CHAUCER. LUCY. ТППЕЕ years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This child 1 to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. " Myself will to my darling... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 508 pages
...she is in her grave, and, oh ! The difference to me I 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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...unsubstantial, fairy place That is fit home for thee ! A MEMORY. THRER 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... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 828 pages
...she is in her grave, and, oh ! The difference to me ! THREE years she grew in sun and shower , Then at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet bair'd. V. ; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. " Myself will to my darling be Both law and... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Literary Criticism - 1875 - 362 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Arthur Compton-Rickett - Authors, English - 1906 - 246 pages
...and a young girl's beauty in that familiar poem:— " 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 mine own. The floating clouds their state shall lend To... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Literature - 1899 - 356 pages
...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 I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. Myself will to my darling be th law and impulse... | |
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