 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...that blows can 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...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... | |
 | Eliza Buckminster Lee - American fiction - 1852 - 196 pages
...now recalled only as connected with the Parish Orphan. • FLORENCE, THE PARISH ORPHAN. CHAPTER I. 'Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower On earth was...shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own." ' THE old meeting-houses and school-houses of New England, with no beauty of architecture, and no durability... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 354 pages
...the mind : — " Three years she grew In inn and shower. Then Nature said, a lovelier flower On eorth was never sown ; This child I to myself will take,...mine, and I will make A lady of my own! Myself will to the darling be Both law and impulse : and with roe The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven,... | |
 | 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...and I will make A Lady of my own. Myself will to my darlins be Both law and impulse : and with The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Wormeley - 1853 - 308 pages
...elements of much that is noble, wise, and beautiful in character. CHAPTER IL Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then nature said — A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This maiden for my own I take, She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of mine own. WOKDSWOKTH. THE windows... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1854 - 258 pages
...from their resting-place : — '' And Nature said, u lovelier flower On eurth was never sown : ****** Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse...Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain. The stars of midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place ; Where... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English essays - 1854 - 350 pages
...reference is incidentally made to the effect of scenery on the mind :— " Three years she grew In sun and shower. Then Nature said, a lovelier flower On...to myself will take, She shall be mine, and I will njake A lady of my own I Myself will to the darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The girl,... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...clear blue sky A soundless waste, a trackless vacancy? WORDSWORTH. LUCY. Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said "A lovelier flower On...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 : and... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - Folk literature, Irish - 1854 - 468 pages
...in his 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...shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own.' " At first, after her father's death, when it was known in what a prosperous state she had been left... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find. Jvhiixoa. LUCY.4 THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower...She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. fI) Secret amhush, &c. — se the lurking danger connected with the attainment of what may seem to... | |
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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... 
