 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...  A Poet's Anthology of Poems - Pagina 148a cura di - 1911 - 407 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 488 pagine
...Wordtworth. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we anything BO fair As is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong 6. DEATH OF THK YOONO AND FAIR. — Anonymous. She died in beauty, like a rose118 blown from its parent... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 460 pagine
...and spirit, but by those •who feel the sublimity of these four lines in his " Ode to Duty," — " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." Is thy life disturbed by guilty or sinful passions ? Have they gained a mastery of thee — and art... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 462 pagine
...scope and spirit, but by those who feel the sublimity of these four lines in his " Ode to Duty,"— " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." Is thy life disturbed by guilty or sinful passions ? Have they gained a mastery of thee — and art... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 456 pagine
...scope and spirit, but by those who feel the sublimity of these four lines in his " Ode to Duty,"— " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." Is thy life disturbed by guilty or sinful passions ? Have they gained a mastery of thee — and art... | |
 | 1857 - 496 pagine
...benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thee in their beds : And fragrance in thy footing treads....ancient Heavens through thee are fresh and strong." And therefore in his poems there will ever be a spring of something even fresher than poetic life —... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 pagine
...Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fanAs is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before...on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; * And blest are they who in the main This faith even now do entertain, Live in the spirit of this... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1857 - 492 pagine
...smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thee in their beds : And fragrance in thy footing trends. Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; , And the...ancient Heavens through thee are fresh and strong." And therefore in his poems there will ever be a spring of something even fresher than poetic life —... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pagine
...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...and strong. To humbler functions, awful power ! I cull thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh ! let my weakness have an end !... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pagine
...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...; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong, And the Ciost ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power, I call... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 480 pagine
...Stern lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we anything so Tair As is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before...treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And tho most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong 6. DEATH OP THE YOUNG AND FAIR. — Anonymous.... | |
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