 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
 | John Harris - 1854 - 316 pagina’s
...the philosophic poet of nature in. his Ode to Duty: " Stern lawgiver ! .^Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens through the.e are fresh and strong." 2 Bishop Berkely's Sins, p. 120. 8 Newton 5 31st Query at the end of Optics. . him from tlie arbitrary... | |
 | 1854 - 330 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. WOBDSWOBTH. "WHY do you dwell so much, dear mamma, upon the necessity of acting from a principle of... | |
 | 1855 - 458 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... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 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... | |
 | Clara Arnold - 1855 - 322 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. \VOBDSWORTH. "WHY do you dwell so much, dear mamma, upon the necessity of acting from a principle of... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 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 humble functions, awful Power ! I call thee ; I myself commend Unto thy guidance, from this hour... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 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." But the poem in which this lofty feeling of intimate communion with nature is most unfolded as a Philosophy... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 456 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...of thee — and art thou indeed their slave ? Then the poetry of Wordsworth must be to thee " As is a picture to a blind man's eye ;" or if thine eyes... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 460 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...of thee — and art thou indeed their slave ? Then the poetry of Wordsworth must be to thee " As is a picture to a blind man's eye ;" or if thine eyes... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 462 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...of thee — and art thou indeed their slave ? Then the poetry of Wordsworth must be to thee " As is a picture to a blind man's eye ;" or if thine eyes... | |
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