 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1854 - 416 pagine
...beauty proceeds : — ' Flowers laugh before thee in their beds, And Fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong, And the most...ancient Heavens through thee are fresh and strong." And, doubtless, the more we studied the secrets of nature, and entered into her most intricate relations,... | |
 | 1854 - 330 pagine
...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 the most...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. WOBDSWOBTH. "WHY do you dwell so much, dear mamma, upon the necessity of acting from a principle of... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pagine
...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 the...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... | |
 | 1855 - 458 pagine
...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 the most...myself commend ' Unto thy guidance, from this hour ; O, let my weak4(ss have an end ! * Give unto me, made lowly, wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ;... | |
 | Clara Arnold - 1855 - 322 pagine
...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 the most...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. \VOBDSWORTH. "WHY do you dwell so much, dear mamma, upon the necessity of acting from a principle of... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pagine
...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 the...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. To humble functions, awful Power ! I call thee ; I myself commend Unto thy guidance, from this hour ;... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 pagine
...the idea of Duty. " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong, And the most...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." But the poem in which this lofty feeling of intimate communion with nature is most unfolded as a Philosophy... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 pagine
...idea of Duty. " Flowers laugh before thec on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Ttou dost preserve the stars from wrong, And the most ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." But the poem in which this lofty feeling of intimate communion with nature is most unfolded as a Philosophy... | |
 | 1857 - 496 pagine
...smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thee in their beds : And fragrance in thy footing treads. 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 —... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 456 pagine
..." Ode to Duty,"— " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong, And the most...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... | |
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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... 
