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:
“What fond and wayward thoughts will slide
Into a Lovers head!
O mercy! to myself I cried,
If Lucy should be dead!”
—William Wordsworth (17701850)
“Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune,
He had not the method of making a fortune.”
—Thomas Gray (17161771)