 | 1839 - 446 pages
...Platonism for all which it involves of ideal beauty and sublimity of metaphysical speculation. LUCY. THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said,...Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 450 pages
...painted with a pencil dipped in morning dew. She realizes the fine description of Wordsworth: — " Three years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said,...shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own.'" Colin Clout is the poet himself. The " country lass," in the Tenth Canto, is supposed to be the lady... | |
 | 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,...Both law and impulse : and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower,. Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.... | |
 | 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,...take, She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of mine own. " Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse, and with me The girl, in rock and plain,... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 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,...mine, and I will make A lady of my own! Myself will to the darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven,... | |
 | 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,...Both law and impulse: and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.... | |
 | 1874 - 654 pages
...with noue of this aristocratic coddling and petting :— Myself will to my darling be Both Lj ' v. and impulse ; and with me, The girl, in rock or plain, In earth and heaven, in glade or bower, Shall feel an over-seeing power To kindle or restrain. She shall be sportive as the fawn,... | |
 | 1845 - 596 pages
...imparts to them a peculiar quiet and refined gracefulness. As for example the following : — " Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then nature said...Both law and impulse ; and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 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,...Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.... | |
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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... 
