"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.
Background
The poem was inspired by Wordsworth being surrounded by snow, and his sister's memory of a real incident that happened at Halifax. Wordsworth explained the origins when he wrote, "Written at Goslar in Germany in 1799. It was founded on a circumstance told me by my Sister, of a little girl who, not far from Halifax in Yorkshire, was bewildered in a snow-storm. Her footsteps were traced by her parents to the middle of the lock of a canal, and no other vestige of her, backward or forward, could be traced. The body however was found in the canal."Lucy Gray was first published in Volume 2 of the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads.
Poem
Lucy Gray is not one of Wordsworth's "Lucy" poems, even though it is a poem that mentions a character named Lucy. The poem is excluded from the series because the traditional "Lucy" poems are uncertain about the age of Lucy and her actual relationship with the narrator, and Lucy Gray provides exact details on both. Furthermore, the poem is different than the "Lucy" poems in that it relies on narrative storytelling and is a direct imitation of the traditional 18th century ballad form.
Lucy Gray is the debut full length album from American emo band, Envy On The Coast. The album was released under Matt Galle's Photo Finish Records on August 7, 2007. The album's first single, "Sugar Skulls," is currently on the iTunes Music store. "Mirrors" has also been released as the second single. The album features guest vocals from members of As Tall As Lions and Circa Survive.
Track listing
"Sugar Skulls" – 3:11
"Artist and Repertoire" – 4:44
"The Gift of Paralysis" (feat. Anthony Green) – 4:38
"Tell Them That She's Not Scared" – 4:18
"(x) Amount of Truth" – 1:48
"Vultures" – 4:09
"Mirrors" – 3:28
"If God Smokes Cheap Cigars" – 4:42
"Starving Your Friends" – 4:35
"Lapse" – 5:40
"...Because All Suffering Is Sweet to Me..." (feat. Dan Nigro) – 3:58
"I'm Breathing...Are You Breathing Too?" (feat. Suzie Zeldin) – 4:32
You'll find the cross only fits, When your hands and feet are nailed to it. "Can we get a picture with the pauper, And another with the prince?" Ma'am, He's got your daughter wrapped in his fist. To the boys and girls, He's alabaster, But to his brothers, just another bastard. With a story about a girl; enough to make you sick, And how she made him king of her gracious hips, She's found a way to crown his fingertips. Let's show them where the bad ones go. Another case of a sheep bearing a broken nose. Let's show them where the bad ones go. Color you criminal, paint black lines on your bones. Wake all the children from their sleep He's robbing pillow-cased dreams and selling cheap. What lives below? He wouldn't know. So let's tell them where the bad ones go... You curse the tail between your legs; Blue faced and black jawed, Your innocent eyes rotted from your bedroom in the night. A lesson from the learned: If your skin won't fit, Don't seal your soul just yet. If the herd is the temptation that the faithless can't evade, "We ate all forbidden grapes and retreated to the vineyard, To the void in which we dwell With a tortured youth and heartaches we'll sell I'll be the blood and body if you'll ring that bell." You'll go down in history With notebooks, pens, and melodies. But you're running from all of us. You're running from all of us. You're running from all your love.
What a career it’s been for Jayda Gray...Trinity graduated players such as Sammi McAuliffe, Lucy Broadrick and Jessica Minnick, leaving Gray and a handful of underclassmen ... Gray didn’t get the memo ... Someone needed to be a guiding hand and Gray was it.
Lawrence, consistently strong on both offense and defense, returns junior Maddie Provost and senior LillyGray, both hungry for a title. Hampden Academy is losing a senior star from last year in Lucy Wiles, but still has a lot of depth on the team.
