Lucy Gray is a poem written by William Wordsworth in 1799 and published in his Lyrical Ballads. It describes the death of a young girl named Lucy Gray, who went out one evening into a storm and was never found again.
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Famous quotes containing the words lucy and/or gray:
“No mate, no comrade Lucy knew;
She dwelt on a wide moor,
MThe sweetest thing that ever grew
Beside a human door!”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
““‘Weave the warp and weave the woof,
The winding-sheet of Edward’s race.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)