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 Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Page 245by William Wordsworth - 1892 - 951 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...wise. 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...ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. VOL. I. B To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pages
...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...ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. VOL. IF To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...same. 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...fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh ! let my weakness have an end... | |
| British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thon dost wear The- Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face; Flowers laugh...Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. To humbler funi-tions, awful Power! I call thee: I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh ! let... | |
| Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 pages
...thing:— 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...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong! * During the forty years that followed his marriage, he had of course his occasional afflictions; he... | |
| Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1831 - 274 pages
...— 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...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong!* * Wordsworth's Ode to Duty, During the forty years that followed his marriage, he had of course his... | |
| Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 pages
...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...fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh! letmy weakness have an end... | |
| James Jolly - 1833 - 170 pages
...humanity. 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...fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power! I call thee; I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour; O let my weakness have an end! Give... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887 - 490 pages
...keeping the heavens themselves fresh and strong by its inspiring might. " Stern Lawgiver! Yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace, Nor...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." It has sometimes been objected to Wordsworth's poetry, that while it is full of natural religion it... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...same. 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...functions, awful Power ! 1 call thee : I myself commend unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh, let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise,... | |
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