 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; And...  Writings - Seite 370von George Eliot - 1908Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 Seiten
...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 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 Seiten
...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 As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And Fragrance... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 Seiten
...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 ;... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1822 - 308 Seiten
...MERCHANT'S SON. " My gentler rest is on a thought, Conscious of doing what I ought." Andrew Marvell. " Stern Law-giver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace, Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flow'rs laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1822 - 310 Seiten
...MERCHANT'S SON. " My gentler rtst is on a thought; Conscious of doing what I ought." Jlndrea Marvell. " Stern Law-giver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace. Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flow'rs laugh before thee on their beds. And fragrance... | |
 | 1829 - 876 Seiten
...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 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... | |
 | 1829 - 930 Seiten
...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 most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thce on their beds, And fragrance... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 Seiten
...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 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... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 Seiten
...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 most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile npon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And fragrance... | |
 | James Jolly - 1833 - 170 Seiten
...terrors overawe; From vain temptations dost set free ; And calm'st the weary strife of frail 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 before thee on their beds, And Fragrance... | |
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