 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 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...fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power 1 I call thee ; I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh, let my weakness have an end... | |
 | Richard Hooker - 1868 - 200 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.' GLOSSARY. Ability, ii. 3 (in the early editions spelt ' habilitie' and ' ability,' sometimes in the... | |
 | Amanda M. Douglas - 1868 - 338 pagine
...sweet, a blessed touch ; There is love in it — love that will not change. JOANNA BAILI j ;;. " O, let my weakness have an end ; Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice. WORDSWORTH. It was a bleak, dreary afternoon in early December. Little, hard pellets of snow drove... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1869 - 752 pagine
...footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, arc fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power!...this hour ; Oh, let my weakness have an end! Give onto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give; j And in the... | |
 | Ralph Tyler Flewelling - 1926 - 654 pagine
...inner meaning."4 The acme and summit of this association of morality with Nature is in the Ode to Duty: "Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong And the most...ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh, and strong." IV. What did Nature do for Wordsworth? What did he gain from her that made life richer and sweeter?... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - 1949 - 802 pagine
...philosophy better than Wordsworth in his identification of duty with the deepest laws of physical nature :14 Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most...ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. But his finest poem is not Stoical: it is Platonic. This is the ode, Intimations of Immortality from... | |
 | 1875 - 398 pagine
...benignant power : — " 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. " Offended conscience, moreover, drew aids from Nature to assert again its injured majesty, a sentiment... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pagine
...reprove; (1. 1—4) 89 Flowers laugh before thee upon their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; ow'r; The (own (1. AWP; EnRP; FPL; GTBS; GTBS-P; NAEL-2; NoP; OAEL-2; OBEV; WGRP On the Extinction of the Venetian... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pagine
...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 the most...I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour; 60 Oh, let my weakness have an end! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The... | |
 | Martha Woodmansee, Peter Jaszi - 1994 - 482 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.68 "The last two lines," Francis Jeffrey notes, "seem to be utterly without meaning; at least... | |
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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... 
