 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...  A School History of English Literature - Page 11by Elizabeth Lee - 1896 - 206 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - Superexlibris - 1871 - 630 pages
...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 uoih law and impulse : and \vith me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 pages
...lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take . She shall he mine, and 1 will make A Lady of my own. Myself will to my darling he Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and... | |
 | John Ruskin - Books and reading - 1872 - 144 pages
...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....earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an oyerseeing power To kindle, or restrain. " The floating clouds their state shall lend To her, for her... | |
 | 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
...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....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... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Literary Criticism - 1875 - 362 pages
...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....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... | |
 | Darrel Abel - Didactic fiction, American - 1988 - 348 pages
...whom alone she enjoys immediate and entire intimacy.1 Nature said. This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. In effect, Wordsworth shows Nature undertaking a controlled experiment, with a selected specimen of... | |
 | Richard Condon - Fiction - 1992 - 310 pages
...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." 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
...his opening words — 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 — suggesting echoes of the Persephone myth, filtered perhaps through Paradise Lost: Not that fair... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...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....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
...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." 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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