 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 before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong...  The English Poets - Strana 53úprava: - 1893Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - Počet stránok 180
...precepts over dignified," Denial and restraint I prize No farther than they breed a second Will more wise. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...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 - Počet stránok 358
...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - Počet stránok 416
...feel the weight of 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...from this hour ; Oh ! let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - Počet stránok 416
...any thing so fair t \ \ i As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; V And Fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve...from this hour ; Oh ! let my weakness have an end ! \\ ' ' ?>••,—, Give unto me, made lowly wrse^' l ' The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - Počet stránok 418
...more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet tliou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor...guidance from this hour ; Oh, let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - Počet stránok 838
...more must change their name, I long for a repose which ever is the same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thon dost wear The- Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor...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 - Počet stránok 334
...the 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...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 - Počet stránok 274
...: — 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...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... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - Počet stránok 378
...thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile npon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds...myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh! letmy weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence... | |
 | James Jolly - 1833 - Počet stránok 170
...terrors overawe; From vain temptations dost set free ; And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity. Stern lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour; O let my weakness have an end! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence... | |
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