| William Wordsworth - 1853 - 300 pages
...something of an angel-lig'.i.'. THREE years she grew in sun nna sJ;o«-e' Then Nature said, " A lovelier ^ On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will...and I will make A Lady of my own. Myself will to my darlins be Both law and impulse : and with The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...steep woods and lofty cliffs, And this green pastoral landscape, were to me 540 WOBDSWOKTH. [VICTORIA, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power, To kindle or restrain. " She shall be sportive us the fawn That wild with glee across the lawn Or up the mountain springs;... | |
| Mary Elizabeth Wormeley - 1853 - 308 pages
...and shower, Then nature said — A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This maiden for my own I take, She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of mine own. WOKDSWOKTH. THE windows of the house, or rather, flat, which Mr. Sibbes occupied in Valetta,... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1854 - 258 pages
...from their resting-place : — '' And Nature said, u lovelier flower On eurth was never sown : ****** Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse...Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain. The stars of midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place ; Where... | |
| Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1854 - 350 pages
...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...to myself will take, She shall be mine, and I will njake A lady of my own I Myself will to the darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The girl,... | |
| George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...waste, a trackless vacancy? WORDSWORTH. 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 he mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and... | |
| Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1854 - 468 pages
...lyric, might have been said, without any breach of truth, of our own Mary Mahony: " Then Nature said, ' A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This child...shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own.' " At first, after her father's death, when it was known in what a prosperous state she had been left... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...happiness she does not find. Jvhiixoa. LUCY.4 THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This child...She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. fI) Secret amhush, &c. — se the lurking danger connected with the attainment of what may seem to... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...said, " a lovelier flower On earth was never seen ; This child I to myself will take ; She shall he mine, and I will make A lady of my own. Myself will, to my darling, he Both law and impulse : and with me The girl, on rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and... | |
| George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1856 - 372 pages
...me the sign of life and death, Kingdoms shall shift about, like clouds This child I to myself wffl take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. * * * * * The stars of midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret... | |
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