| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1832 - 402 pages
...slide Into a Lover's head ! — " O mercy ! " to myself I cried, " If Lucy should be dead!" IX. SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs...praise And very few to love : A Violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown,... | |
| Alexander Copland - 1832 - 586 pages
...the wearers — the inhabitants have gone. A verse from Wordsworth furnishes another example : — " She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But the is in Her grave — and oh ! The difference to me I " This has been called "touchingly beautiful,"... | |
| Gift books - 1834 - 338 pages
...our best poets has touched on this matter with the wisdom of inspiration: these are his words : " She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs...Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave... | |
| 1835 - 842 pages
...beautiful, bears too close a resemblance to the still more beautiful lines of William Wordsworth, She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs...Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. As a versifier Ilalleck is by no means equal to his friend, all of whose poems evince... | |
| Offering - 1834 - 384 pages
...this matter with the wisdom of inspiration: these are his words : " She dwelt among the untrodden way* Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave—... | |
| Anthologies - 1834 - 506 pages
...untrodden wcys Beside the springs of DOTE ; A maid whom there were none to fnase, And very few to love : She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be : But she i« in her grave, and, oh ! The difference to me '." This was a maiden something more to the purpose... | |
| Garland - English poetry - 1836 - 246 pages
...spirits twine, A fairer form than cherub loves, And let the name be CAROLINE. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways, Beside the springs...Half-hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shinjng in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in... | |
| American literature - 1836 - 694 pages
...have seen it, and very few have read it. It resembles Wordsworth's Lucy : A maid whom there were few to praise, And very few to love. A violet by a mossy stone attracts more attention from passing travellers, than does this diminutive volume from the critics.... | |
| 1837 - 860 pages
...sad beguiling sorrow : — She dwelt among th' untrodden ways, Beside the springs of Dove, A roaid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love ; A violet by a mo«sy stone, Half hidden from the eye ; Fair as a star when only one Is shining ia the sky. She lived... | |
| Canadian poetry - 1838 - 746 pages
...creation—a pure, a bright one—teeming with truth and joy. Lucy realised Wordsworth's description— " She dwelt among the untrodden ways, Beside the springs...And very few to love. " A violet by a mossy stone, Half hidden from the eye, A sinple star, wh«n only MIC, Is shining in the sky. 1 ' CHAPTER IV. " Hear... | |
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