 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...  Poems of Wordsworth - Pagina 194door William Wordsworth - 1880 - 325 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1808 - 532 pagina’s
...Godhead's mod benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing fo fair As is the fmile upon thy face ; Flowers Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou doll preferve the ftars from wrong ; And the moft ancient heavens through thee are frelh and ftronjr.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pagina’s
...Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we 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 the Stars from wrong ; And the most ancient... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1818 - 390 pagina’s
...existence as subservient to one spirit, concludes his address to the power of Duty in the following words : To humbler functions, awful Power! I call thee: I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour; Ob, let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pagina’s
...As is the smile upon thy face: Mowers laugh before thee on their beds; And Fragrance in thy fooling treads; Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong; And the most ancient Heavens, through Thee, arc f and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power! 1 r ill thee: 1 myself commend L'nto thy guidance... | |
 | 1829 - 876 pagina’s
...rewards. " 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...their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." Having traced these facts back to their principles, there is a strong temptation to anticipate the... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
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