 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...  Shakespeare's Comedy of the Tempest - Page 204by William Shakespeare - 1904 - 226 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...survey'd. W. Wordsworth CLXXIX THE EDUCATION OF NATURE /T~'HREE years she grew in sun and shower ; -L Then Nature said, ' A lovelier flower On earth was...Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain. ' She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild with glee across the lawn Or up the mountain springs... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 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,...darling, be Both law and impulse: and with me The girl, on rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power, To kindle... | |
 | 1863 - 514 pages
...to say, until Mr. Charles Kingsley said to himself, we will suppose, as Nature of Wordsworth's Lucy, This child I to myself will take, She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own of her. Gibbon, probably, on the strength of his Decline and Fall, and Goldsmith, certainly, on the... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1863 - 514 pages
...Charles Kingsley said to himself, we will suppose, as Nature of Wordsworth's Lucy, This child I to mjself will take, She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own of her. Gibbon, probably, on the strength of his Decline and Fall, and Goldsmith, certainly, on the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Nancy Kiefer - Homosexuality - 1995 - 84 pages
...years she grew in sun and shower." Have you read any of those? LUCY. No, I haven't. DOMENIC. "Three years she grew in sun and shower Then Nature said:...shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own." LUCY. Is she dead in that poem, too? DOMENIC. She's dead in all the poems. LUCY. Who was she? DOMENIC.... | |
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