 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1800 - 240 pages
...will be a stormy night, You to the Town must go, And take a lantern, Child, to light Your Mother thro' the snow." " That, Father ! will I gladly do ; 'Tis...struck two, And yonder is the Moon." At this the Father rais'd his hook And snapp'da faggot-band ; He plied his work, and Lucy took The lantern in her hand.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...thro' the snow." ' That, Father! will I gladly do; ' 'Tis scarcely afternoon— ' The Minster-dock has just struck Two, ' And yonder is the Moon! At this the Father rais'd his hook And snapp'da faggot-band; He plied his work, and Lucy took The lanthern in her hand:... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pages
...busy limbs in perfect j|st, And closed the sparkling eye. VII. LUCY GRAY, Or Solitude. OFT I had beard of Lucy Gray: And, when I crossed the Wild, I chanced...Moon." At this the Father raised his hook And snapped a faggot-band ; He plied his work ; — and Lucy took The lantern in her hand. Not blither is the mountain... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...— You to the Town must go ; And take a lantern, Child, to light Your mother through the snow." 14 " That, Father! will I gladly do; 'Tis scarcely afternoon...Moon." At this the Father raised his hook And snapped a faggot-band ; He plied his work ; — and Lucy took The lantern in her hand. Not blither is the mountain... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 378 pages
...they lie ; Their busy limbs in perfect rest, And closed the sparkling eye. VIL LUCY GRAY, Or Solitude. OFT I had heard of Lucy Gray : And, when I crossed...Moon." At this the Father raised his hook And snapped a faggot-band ; He plied his work ; — and Lucy took The lantern in her hand. Not blither is the mountain... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 pages
...while to quote a case which came under my own notice, where a country clock was probably wrong, — , " Tis scarcely afternoon, The Minster-clock has just struck two, And yonder is the moon." Lucy Gray.—Lyrical Ballads, vol.ii. p. 72. edit. 1805.' ' f See lines written in Germany on one of... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 pages
...while to quote a case which came under my own notice, where a country clock was probably wrong, — . " 'Tis scarcely afternoon, —— The Minster-clock has just struck two, And yonder is the moon." Lucy Gray.—Lyrical Ballads, vol. ii. p. 72. edit. 1805.' ' f See lines written in Germany on one... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 416 pages
...Lucy knew ; She dwelt on a wide Moor, — The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door ! Yo u yet may spy the Fawn at play, The Hare upon the Green...At this the Father raised his hook, And snapped a faggot-band ; He plied his work ; — and Lucy took The lantern in her hand. Not blither is the mountain... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...knew ; She dwelt on a wide Moor, — The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door ! • " To-night will be a stormy night — You to the Town...At this the Father raised his hook, And snapped a faggot-band; He plied his work;—and Lucj- took The lantern in her hand. Not "blither is the mountain... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...a lantern, Child, to light Your mother through the snow... • That, Father, will I gladly do; T is scarcely afternoon— The Minster-clock has just struck...At this the Father raised his hook, And snapped a faggot-band; He plied his work; — and Lucy took The lantern in her hand. Not blither is the mountain... | |
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That, Father ! will I gladly do : 'Tis scarcely afternoon — The minster-clock has just struck two, And yonder is the moon... 
