 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...  The Augustan review - Pàgina 3341815Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1866 - 522 pàgines
...and adieu ! I cannot aid thy breaking heart, For mine is breaking too. ( JIY DAUGHTER'S FUTURE. 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. Her... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1867 - 144 pàgines
...will read the introductory stanzas, but the last is the one I wish you specially to notice: " 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... | |
 | 1867 - 510 pàgines
...played in sun and shade, Then Percy said — "A lovelier maid At croquet ne'er was seen : This girl I to myself will take, She shall be mine, and I will make For her a croquet green. " She shall be playful as the cat That, wild with glee, upon the mat Or on... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1867 - 360 pàgines
...sign of life and death, Kingdoms shall shift about, like clouds This child I to myself will tako ; 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 place... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pàgines
...my love, I cannot write, unless he's sent above !) LXIL LUCY. years she grew, in sun and shower, _1_ Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower On earth was...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 me The girl, on rock and plain, In earth... | |
 | 1868 - 496 pàgines
...Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, a lovlier 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 darting; be, Both law and impulse ; and with me The girl, in rook and plain, In... | |
 | Arthur Compton-Rickett - 1906 - 246 pàgines
...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 mine own. The floating clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willows bend; Nor shall she... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 1988 - 348 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Susan Eilenberg - 1992 - 302 pàgines
...He is also King of the Underworld, 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... | |
 | Richard Condon - 1992 - 310 pàgines
...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, "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... | |
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