 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 6by Robert Percival Downes - 1890 - 119 pagesFull view - About this book
 | sir Henry Taylor - 1849 - 328 pages
...influence of natural objects and a natural piety : — ' 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... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 434 pages
...from heaven Thau when I was a boy. ivor. BY WORDSWORTH. 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... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...soundless waste, a trackless vacancy1 WORDSWORTH. LUCY. 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die! LUCY. 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;... | |
 | Periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...only holy and pure afteetion ? — "Three years she grew in sun and shower; Then îiature sait!, Л lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This child I to myself will take ; Shu shall be mine, and I will mukc A lady of шу own ! " My«e)f will to the darling be Both law... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Lucy. 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... | |
 | Eliza Buckminster Lee - American fiction - 1852 - 196 pages
...recalled only as connected with the Parish Orphan. • FLORENCE, THE PARISH ORPHAN. CHAPTER I. '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." ' THE old meeting-houses and school-houses... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1853 - 300 pages
...something of an angel-lig'.i.'. THREE years she grew in sun nna sJ;o«-e' Then Nature said, " A lovelier ^ 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 darlins be Both law and impulse... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...soundless waste, a trackless vacancy? WORDSWORTH. LUCY. 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 he mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - Folk literature, Irish - 1854 - 468 pages
...exquisite lyric, might have been said, without any breach of truth, of our own Mary Mahony: " 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.' " At first, after her father's death, when... | |
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