 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...  The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Pagina 498di William Wordsworth - 1856 - 539 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pagine
...I now would serve more strictly, if I may. Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control ; But...this unchartered freedom tires ; I feel the weight of chance desires : My hopes no more must change their name ; I long for a repose that ever is the same.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1868 - 544 pagine
...now would serve more strictly, if I may. v. Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control,— But...this unchartered freedom tires; I feel the weight ot chance desires ; My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.... | |
 | Richard Hooker - 1868 - 200 pagine
...Hooker, in the Ecclesiastical Polity, has gone beyond this. Compare Wordsworth, ' Ode to Duty:' . Ster n Law-giver ! 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 Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pagine
...I now would serve more strictly, if I may. Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control ; But...this unchartered freedom tires ; I feel the weight of chance desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose which ever is the same.... | |
 | 1869 - 436 pagine
...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 The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know \ve anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1869 - 752 pagine
...compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control; Bat in the quietness of thought: Me this nnchartered freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance-desires: My hopes no more must change their name, 1 long for a repose that ever is the same. Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant... | |
 | 1869 - 384 pagine
...to Duty has sung her praise in words which I trust are in the memories of most who hear me : — " 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 in their beds, And fragrance... | |
 | Afternoon lectures - 1869 - 378 pagine
...to Duty has sung her praise in words which I trust are in the memories of most who hear me : — " 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 in their beds, And fragrance... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pagine
...now would serve more strictly, if I may. v. Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control, — But...unchartered freedom tires ; I feel the weight 'of chance desires ; My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1870 - 360 pagine
...towards that of Duty : — " Me this unchartered freedom tires ; I feel the weight of chance desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same." And this desire for repose — a desire to find rest for the spirit in some thing or some person —... | |
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