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 Poems of William Wordsworth - Página 361por William Wordsworth - 1849 - 619 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 páginas
...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...from wrong; And the most ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. VOL. I. B To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 páginas
...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...from wrong; And the most ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. VOL. IF To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 páginas
...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 wrong; And the most ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 páginas
...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...wrong ; And the most ancient Heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance... | |
| British poets - 1828 - 838 páginas
...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...from wrong; And the most ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. To humbler funi-tions, awful Power! I call thee: I myself commend Unto thy guidance... | |
| 1829 - 876 páginas
...of one who, in his address to Duty, shews that he has obeyed her call, and received her rewards. " Stern Lawgiver '. yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." Having traced these facts back to their principles, there is a strong temptation to anticipate the... | |
| 1829 - 930 páginas
...of one who, in his address to Duty, shews that he has obeyed her call, and received her rewards. " Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...As is the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thce on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." Having traced these facts back to their principles,... | |
| Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 páginas
...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...wrong, And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong! * During the forty years that followed his marriage, he had of course his occasional... | |
| Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1831 - 274 páginas
...: — 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...wrong, And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong!* * Wordsworth's Ode to Duty, During the forty years that followed his marriage,... | |
| Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 páginas
...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...from wrong; And the most ancient Heavens through thee are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance... | |
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