 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 Recreations of Christopher North [pseud.] - Pagina 299door John Wilson - 1852 - 307 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pagina’s
...laugh before thee on their beds; And Fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong; And the most 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 pagina’s
...laugh before thee on their beds ; And Fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong; And the most ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pagina’s
...laugh before thee on their beds ; V And Fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong ; And the most ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pagina’s
...laugh before thee on their beds ; And Fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong ; And the most ancient Heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pagina’s
...laugh before thee on their beds ; And Fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong; And the most ancient 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... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 pagina’s
...laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong, And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong! * During the forty years that followed his marriage, he had of course his occasional afflictions; he... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 pagina’s
...laugh before thee on their beds ; And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient Heavens through thee are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | James Jolly - 1833 - 170 pagina’s
...laugh before thee on their beds, And Fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong, And the most ancient Heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power! I call thee; I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour;... | |
 | John Frederick Denison Maurice - 1837 - 322 pagina’s
...readers of the beautiful passage in Wordsworth's Ode to Duty, ending, Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong. And the most ancient Heavens, through Thee are fresh and strong, L 2 212 CEREMONIES. libertine, yet persuade itself that it can be free without being obedient, or that... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1843 - 278 pagina’s
...thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thttu dost preserve the stare from wrong, And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
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