The Story Of a Beautifull Innocent Girl

Lucy Gray

Writer: William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

The poet narrates a tragic story of a beautiful innocent little girl, Lucy Gray, who lived in wild pain with her parents. Once in the winter season, her mother had gone to the nearby town for some work. Her father asked her to take a lantern and bring back her mother as a storm was expected in the night. Being an obedient child, she gladly set out for the town but unfortunately, when she was still on her way, the storm came before its expected time and she was caught. She lost her path and wandered up and down on many hills but neither she reached the nor she returned her home.