 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...  Poems - Page 313by William Wordsworth - 1815Full view - About this book
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1869 - 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,...to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will mako A Lady of my own. " Myself will, to my darling, be Both law and impulse: and with ma The girl,... | |
 | Christina Catherine Liddell - 1869 - 354 pages
...— I have no grief, no ill, no pain, — Why should the darkness merely make me sad ? MARGARET. i. ' Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower On earth was...shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own." ' WORDSWORTH. THE small station of Islesworth sees but little of traffic or travellers. It is situated... | |
 | A. P. A. - Acrostics - 1869 - 226 pages
...menial flock ; And oft apart his arms he toss'd, And often mutter'd, ' Lost ! lost ! lost ! ' " 2. " She said : ' A lovelier flower On earth was never sown...shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own.' " 3. " Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In , where the Etruscan shades High over-arched... | |
 | 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...in glade and bower, Shall feel an over-seeing power i To kindle and restrain." There is no need to quote the rest, it is well-known ; but nothing can be... | |
 | 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...make A lady of my own. Myself will to my darling be th law and impulse ; and with me The girl in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower,... | |
 | Darrel Abel - Didactic fiction, American - 1988 - 348 pages
...off from human relationships. She is not even acknowledged to be engendered from human stock: Three years she grew in sun and shower. Then Nature said, "A lovelier rlower On earth was never sown." The avoidance of mention of her human origin and the elaboration of... | |
 | Richard Condon - Fiction - 1992 - 310 pages
...stared into the beautiful face which had been William Wordsworth's as he softly spoke the poetry. Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said,...shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own." He mooned up at her, his eyes as pleading as a dachshund's. "Wordsworth certainly wasn't much of a... | |
 | Susan Eilenberg - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 302 pages
...of allegory, greatest of ventriloquists.27 He is also King of the Underworld, his opening words — A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child...She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own — suggesting echoes of the Persephone myth, filtered perhaps through Paradise Lost: Not that fair... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...GTBS; GTBS-P; NOBE; OAEL-2; OBEV; OBNC; TrGrPo IV. Three years she grew in sun and shower 48 Three (1. 1 -4) POETRY QUOTATIONS V. A slumber did my spirit seal 49 She seemed a thing that could not feel... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...mercy!' to myself I cried, 'If Lucy should be dead!' 'Three years she grew in sun and shower' Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said,...impulse: and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, 10 In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain. 'She... | |
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