 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...  Poems,: In Two Volumes, - 75. oldalszerző: William Wordsworth - 1807Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 oldal
...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 ; V And Fragrance in... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1831 - 274 oldal
...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 anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 oldal
...throughout Still act according to the voice Of my own wish ; and feel past doubt That my submissiveness was choice : Not seeking in the school of pride For...grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile npon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 858 oldal
...throughout Still act according to the voice Of my own wish ; and feel past douht That my suhmissiveness was choice : Not seeking in the school of pride For...Denial and restraint I prize No farther than they hreed a second Will more wisi.. Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most henignant grace... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1836 - 414 oldal
...of one who, in his address to Duty, shows that he has obeyed h:r call, and received her rewards. " Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so failAs is the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887 - 490 oldal
...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 benignant grace, Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 oldal
...more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost 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 in thy footing treads ; Thou dost... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1852 - 438 oldal
...humble servant, "W. WORDSWORTH." Here follows a specimen of this gentleman's writing — " Great ' Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The godhead's most benignant grace, Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile ' on George's face. " ' Flowers laugh before ' him ' on their beds,... | |
 | H. C. Foster - 1853 - 378 oldal
...chance desires ; My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1854 - 374 oldal
...chance desires ; My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. 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... | |
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