 | 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... | |
 | 1829 - 876 Seiten
...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...their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." Having traced these facts back to their principles, there is a strong temptation to anticipate the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1836 - 378 Seiten
...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...their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." Having traced these facts back to their principles, there is a strong temptation to anticipate the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 414 Seiten
...noble: " 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...their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." Both as a moral and as a religious poet, Wordsworth may take a high station. In the latter point of... | |
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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... 
