 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...  Voices of the True-hearted - Page 2071846 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Ruskin - Books and reading - 1866 - 154 pages
...never sown. This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. u Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse;...Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle, or restrain. . " The floating clouds their state shall lend To her, for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1842 - 578 pages
...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...feel an overseeing power, To kindle or restrain." ' In the ode to Duty again, he speaks in the same sense as in the sonnet — ' Me this unchartered... | |
 | Geoffrey Durrant - Literary Criticism - 1969 - 184 pages
...the process is one of opposing polarities, of a dialectic from which the living complexity arises: Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse:...Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain. The whole of this passage is marked by a pattern of antitheses, between 'law and impulse', 'rock and... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Literary Criticism - 1875 - 362 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Susan Eilenberg - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 302 pages
...makes the plans that Nature reveals. She shares Nature's power even as she is subjected to it. Dwelling "in rock and plain, / In earth and heaven, in glade and bower," she haunts the ground, moves the clouds, causes the trees to bow. She might be a genius loci, if only... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Poetry - 2000 - 788 pages
...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...restrain. She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild with glee across the lawn Or up the mountain springs, And hers shall be the breathing balm, And hers the... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Fiction - 2003 - 356 pages
...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...and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, 10 Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain. 'She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild... | |
 | Antonio D. Tillis - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 163 pages
...six months each year. Lucy is to take on natural powers after her death, too, for Nature decrees that "The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven,...Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain." But this does not include the power to return to her previous existence or to communicate with the... | |
 | John Ruskin - Art - 2006 - 193 pages
...minei and I will make A lady of my own. 1 Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse ; and irith me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an os'crseeing power To kindle, or restrain. « The floating clouds their state shall lend To her, for... | |
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