...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...

...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...

...under the influence of nature, with 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...

...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...

...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...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...

...Three years she grew in sun and shower 48 Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelierX . (1. 1 -4) POETRY QUOTATIONS V. A slumber did my spirit seal 49 She seemed a thing that could not feel...

...'Three years she grew in sun and shower' Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child...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...

...of those? LUCY. No, I haven't. DOMENIC. "Three years she grew in sun and shower 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." LUCY. Is she dead in that poem, too? DOMENIC. She's dead in all the poems. LUCY. Who was she? DOMENIC....

...'Three years she grew in sun and shower' Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child...and bower, 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...

...her misery and carry her over the waters to his land of dreams and fulfilment. 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." But all that of course was only a dream. 118 11 Raj was faced with problems at work His furniture business...