...and shower." Have you read any of those? LUCY. No, I haven't. DOMENIC. "Three years she grew in sun and shower Then Nature said: "A lovelier flower On...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....

...gende hand Touch - for there is a Spirit in the woods. Three Years She Grew Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On...and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, 10 Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain. 'She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild...

...advantages of any sort; but Dame Nature flung herself into the breach and said: "This child I to myself wilt take; She shall be mine and I will make A Lady of my own. " Blessed Wordsworth! How he makes us understand! And the pearl never heard of him until now! Think...

...a kind of goddess in that poem which Coleridge called 'Nature's Lady': Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On...take; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own.'1 But although these poets declare that the beauty of the person celebrated is a unique and never-to-be-repeated...

...intention to possess the woman-child and form her, having singled her out as exceptional in her beauty: "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child...shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own." A different, apparently conflicting code is at work. An interpreter seeking the right context for lines...

...the landscape. "Three Years She Grew" (1800) particularly comes to mind: Three years she grew in sun and shower. Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On...shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own." (11. 1-6) Thus Nature spake — the work was done — How soon my Lucy's race was run! She died, and...

...introductory stanzas, but the last is the one I wish you specially to nofse : «i Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, ' A lovelier flower...sown, This child I to myself will take ; She shall be minei and I will make A lady of my own. 1 Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse ; and irith...

...claiming Lucy for his own. The language of the marriage ritual haunts Nature's speech in the first stanza: This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. (4-6) (The overabundance of first-person possessives cannot be overlooked.) The word lady makes little...

...'She shall be mine', says Nature, 'and I will make / A Lady of my own' (5-6). The girl will then be 'in rock and plain, / In earth and heaven, in glade and bower' (9-11). She will be literally alive, 'sportive as the fawn / That wild with glee across the lawn /...