 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 [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 424 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... | |
 | Shadworth Hollway Hodgson - 1870 - 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." Here the order and beauty of the universe are attributed to the obedience which it pays to the commands... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 432 pagina’s
...addressing as it were a deified idea of Duty, pays this homage :— . . . " Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong, And the most ancient heavens through Thee are fresh and strong." Well may Hooker speculate on what would become of man, were Nature to intermit her course, and leave... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 550 pagina’s
...addressing as it were a deified idea of Duty, pays this homage :— . . . " Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong, And the most ancient heavens through Thee are fresh and strong." Well may Hooker speculate on what would become of man, were Nature to intermit her course, and leave... | |
 | Ralph Tyler Flewelling - 1926 - 654 pagina’s
...summit of this association of morality with Nature is in the Ode to Duty: "Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh, and strong." IV. What did Nature do for Wordsworth? What did he gain from her that made life richer and sweeter?... | |
 | James Chandler - 1984 - 338 pagina’s
...Flowers 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;... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - 1949 - 802 pagina’s
...his identification of duty with the deepest laws of physical nature :14 Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. But his finest poem is not Stoical: it is Platonic. This is the ode, Intimations of Immortality from... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pagina’s
...laugh before thee upon their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars ggared (1. AWP; EnRP; FPL; GTBS; GTBS-P; NAEL-2; NoP; OAEL-2; OBEV; WGRP On the Extinction of the Venetian... | |
 | 1875 - 398 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. " Offended conscience, moreover, drew aids from Nature to assert again its injured majesty, a sentiment... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pagina’s
...Flowers 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;... | |
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