| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
| British poets - 1828 - 838 Seiten
...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... | |
| Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| 1854 - 332 Seiten
...benignant grace; Nor knew we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thoe on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. WOKDSWOBTH. "WHY do you dwell so much, dear mamma, upon the necessity of acting from a principle of... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1840 - 464 Seiten
...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...treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And themost ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh andstrong . To humbler functions, awful Power ! I... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887 - 490 Seiten
...the stars from wrong," as keeping the heavens themselves fresh and strong by its inspiring might. " Stern Lawgiver! Yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." It has sometimes been objected to Wordsworth's poetry, that while it is full of natural religion it... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 Seiten
...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...fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! 1 call thee : I myself commend unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh, let my weakness have an end... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 Seiten
...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...heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler funetions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh, let... | |
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