 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...  May You Like it - Seite 28von Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1822 - 272 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...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 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 v As is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds; And Fragrance in thy footing... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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 ; V And Fragrance in... | |
 | Mrs. Hoare (Louisa Gurney) - 1819 - 206 Seiten
...themselves, that " her ways are ways of pleasantness;" and that " all her paths are peace :" — " Nor know we any thing so fair, As is the smile upon her face*." ,, Care must be taken not to press too closely upon children such non-essential points... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 Seiten
...more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet tliou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor...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... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 Seiten
...more must change their name, I long for a repose which ever is the same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thon dost wear The- Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor...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... | |
 | 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...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." Having traced these... | |
 | 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...we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thce on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." Having traced these... | |
 | 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...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... | |
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