Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And... The Public School Speaker - Seite 385von Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - 570 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 Seiten
...wise. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh...ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. VOL. I. B To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 Seiten
...Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair v As is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before...ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. VOL. IF To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 Seiten
...same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh...I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh ! let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ;... | |
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 Seiten
...any thing so fair t \ \ i As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; V And Fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve...I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh ! let my weakness have an end ! \\ ' ' ?>••,—, Give unto me, made lowly wrse^' l ' The spirit... | |
| British poets - 1828 - 838 Seiten
...same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thon dost wear The- Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face; Flowers laugh...Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. To humbler funi-tions, awful Power! I call thee: I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh ! let... | |
| Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 Seiten
...thing:— Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong! * During the forty years that followed his marriage, he had of course his occasional afflictions; he... | |
| Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1831 - 274 Seiten
...wove a garland for duty — so generally spoken and thought of as a cold and joyless thing : — Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong!* * Wordsworth's Ode to Duty, During the forty years that followed his marriage, he had of course his... | |
| Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 Seiten
...thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile npon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds...I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh! letmy weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887 - 490 Seiten
...stars from wrong," as keeping the heavens themselves fresh and strong by its inspiring might. " Stern Lawgiver! Yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." It has sometimes been objected to Wordsworth's poetry, that while it is full of natural religion it... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 Seiten
...The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy'face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance...I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh, let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The... | |
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