She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown,... The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song - Page 672by Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 882 pagesFull view - About this book
| Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 pages
...A maid whom there were none to praise, and very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone half hidden from the eye ! Fair as a star, when only one is shining...is in her grave, — and oh ! the difference to me ! * * * We cull two or three more little brilliants ; — here they are : — Sympathy with Nature... | |
| Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1880 - 362 pages
...A maid whom there were few to praise, And very few to love ; A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining...she is in her grave, and oh ! The difference to me ! II. POLITICS. — But poet of the hill and hamlet as he was, it is impossible to separate Wordsworth... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 648 pages
...A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is...she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me ! (I799-) Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On earth was... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 650 pages
...A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is...she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me ! (1799.) Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On earth was... | |
| 1880 - 296 pages
...maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone, Half hidden from the eye ! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining...she is in her grave, and, oh The difference to me ! W. WOBDSWOBTH. » 50 » HOW THE GATES CAME AJAR. I. 'TwAS whispered one morning in heaven How the... | |
| Mary Wilder Tileston - 1880 - 248 pages
...A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half bidden from the eye ! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining...she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me ! WILLIAM WORDSWOKTH, 1779. ELEGY ON MISTRESS ELIZABETH DRURY. OHE, of whose soul, if we may say, 'twas... | |
| Anna Callender Brackett - 1881 - 348 pages
...Then, heigh ho ! the holly ! This life is most jolly. William Shakespeare. • 183. THE LOST LOVE. She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs...When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and O, The difference to me ! William Wordsworth. * 184* ELEGY. WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. The curfew... | |
| James W. Gousseff - 1981 - 236 pages
...Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love: A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! — Fair as a star, when only one Is...she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me! ME (a sorely-beset young lover) attempts to enter from one side. ME is apparently held back by some... | |
| 1989 - 484 pages
...Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love: A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! — Fair as a star, when only one Is...she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me! William Wordsworth, 1799 which ending was the original and why the others didn't quite fit in. I once... | |
| Jon Stallworthy - 1986 - 422 pages
...were none to praise And very few to love: WORDSWORTH • BARNES A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is...she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me ! William Barnes THE WIFE A-LOST Since I noo mwore do zee your feace, Up steairs or down below, I'll... | |
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