 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...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 316edited by - 1878Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pages
...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...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, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; V And Fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong ;...ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...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;...ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...is the smile upon thy face; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And Fragrance in thy footing er hours of youth, Hyolean murmurs of poetic thought...Industrious in its joy, in vales and glens Native or outland To humbler funi-tions, awful Power! I call thee: I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 pages
...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...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong! * During the forty years that followed his marriage, he had of course his occasional afflictions; he... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 pages
...is the smile npon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong;...ancient Heavens through thee are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | James Jolly - 1833 - 170 pages
...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...ancient Heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power! I call thee; I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour;... | |
 | 1854 - 310 pages
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 | 1855 - 320 pages
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 | John Frederick Denison Maurice - 1837 - 322 pages
...chartered * I need scarcely remind my readers of the beautiful passage in Wordsworth's Ode to Duty, ending, Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong. And the most...ancient Heavens, through Thee are fresh and strong, L 2 212 CEREMONIES. libertine, yet persuade itself that it can be free without being obedient, or that... | |
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