Three Years She Grew Summary & Analysis
by William Wordsworth

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"Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower" is one of Romantic poet William Wordsworth's mysterious "Lucy poems," a sequence in which an anonymous speaker mourns the woman he loved. Here, the speaker describes Lucy's upbringing. A woman so perfectly calm, wise, beautiful, and playful, he imagines, could only have been raised by Nature itself. With a character as harmonious and balanced as the seasons, Lucy has everything—except, alas, immortality. Wordsworth first published this poem in the 1800 second edition of Lyrical Ballads, one of the most influential collections of poetry in English.

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