 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...  Selections from Wordsworth - Seite xxiivon William Wordsworth - 1897 - 215 SeitenVollansicht - 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... | |
 | 1808 - 596 Seiten
...worihipp'st at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not.' Vol. I. p. 123' Flowers laugh before thee in their beds, And Fragrance in thy footing treads. Vol. I. p. 73. ' The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep ; The winds come to me from thejitlds... | |
 | 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 ;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1882 - 870 Seiten
...suffers himself to call before the reader's mind another and as rich a source of floral birth :— "Flowers laugh before thee in their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." A later writer has returned to the older thought. Dr Westland Marston "calls his piece, " Three Dreams... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 Seiten
...same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thon dost wear The- Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing : K h/ / # R Z ' ¶= 7@FZ d@ % 40LJ 霺 p _ ݻ on their beds ; And Fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong; And... | |
 | 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... | |
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