 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...  The Augustan review - Page 3341815Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...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 me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. 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... | |
 | Childhood - 1841 - 384 pages
...me, mine own! Come death, and make me to my child at least in spirit known ! LUCY. 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 mine own. " Myself... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1842 - 412 pages
...singleness than where 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 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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1842 - 654 pages
...for the government of a life led under the influence of natural objects and a natural piety : Three years she grew in sun and shower ; Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower On eanh was never sown ; This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and 1 will make A lady... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. II. 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... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...the earth, (Am— »nd not till then— let my epitaph be written.— I bave done. 736* LUCT. 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.... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...whole human race. 5 Transmuted ill — ie evil changed by the power of patience into good. LUCY.1 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...never ending ; Of serious faith, and inward glee ; That was the song— the song for me ! I806. 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...never ending ; Of serious faith, and inward glee ; That was the song — the song for me ! 1BOR. 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... | |
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