 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 Register of the Lynn Historical Society - Pagina 66door Lynn Historical Society (Lynn, Mass.) - 1905Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pagina’s
...precepts over dignified," Denial and restraint I prize No farther than they breed a second Will more 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 before thee on their beds; And Fragrance... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pagina’s
...chance-desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose which ever is the 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 before thee on their beds ; And Fragrance... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pagina’s
...chance-desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose which ever is the same. Stern 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 ;... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1822 - 308 pagina’s
...MERCHANT'S SON. " My gentler rest is on a thought, Conscious of doing what I ought." Andrew Marvell. " Stern Law-giver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace, Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flow'rs laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1822 - 310 pagina’s
...MERCHANT'S SON. " My gentler rtst is on a thought; Conscious of doing what I ought." Jlndrea Marvell. " Stern Law-giver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace. Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flow'rs laugh before thee on their beds. And fragrance... | |
 | 1829 - 876 pagina’s
...of one who, in his address to Duty, shews that he has obeyed her call, and received her 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 before thee on their beds, And fragrance... | |
 | 1829 - 930 pagina’s
...of one who, in his address to Duty, shews that he has obeyed her call, and received her 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 before thce on their beds, And fragrance... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 pagina’s
...the poet 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 grace; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1831 - 274 pagina’s
...poet 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...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... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 pagina’s
...precepts over dignified/ Denial and restraint I prize No farther than they breed a second Will more wise. Stern Lawgiver ! yet 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 ; And fragrance... | |
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