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... Poems,: In Two Volumes, - Page 75by William Wordsworth - 1807Full view - About this book
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...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 we any thing so fair t \ \ i As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; V And Fragrance in... | |
| Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1831 - 274 pages
...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 benignant grace ; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance... | |
| Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 pages
...throughout Still act according to the voice Of my own wish ; and feel past doubt That my submissiveness was choice : Not seeking in the school of pride For...grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile npon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou... | |
| Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 858 pages
...throughout Still act according to the voice Of my own wish ; and feel past douht That my suhmissiveness was choice : Not seeking in the school of pride For...Denial and restraint I prize No farther than they hreed a second Will more wisi.. Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most henignant grace... | |
| Harriet Martineau - 1836 - 414 pages
...of one who, in his address to Duty, shows that he has obeyed h:r call, and received her rewards. " Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so failAs is the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887 - 490 pages
...the stars from wrong," as keeping the heavens themselves fresh and strong by its inspiring might. " 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... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 pages
...more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost 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... | |
| William Jerdan - 1852 - 438 pages
...humble servant, "W. WORDSWORTH." Here follows a specimen of this gentleman's writing — " Great ' Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The godhead's most benignant grace, Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile ' on George's face. " ' Flowers laugh before ' him ' on their beds,... | |
| H. C. Foster - 1853 - 378 pages
...chance desires ; My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. 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... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1854 - 374 pages
...chance desires ; My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. 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... | |
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