 | R. C. J. - 1866 - 304 Seiten
...same. 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...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 [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1866 - 408 Seiten
...DUTY. STERN Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; ]STor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh...footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; Aud the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power,... | |
 | S S. Pugh - 1867 - 244 Seiten
...— ' ' 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...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." One of the finest examples in early scriptural history of this fidelity to duty — fidelity embracing... | |
 | James Chandler - 1984 - 338 Seiten
...invariable conformity to moral law just as the activity of flowers and stars conforms to natural law: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance...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;... | |
 | 1875 - 398 Seiten
...from duty fulfilled. In his " Ode to Duty " he brings all under her stem but benignant power : — " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. " Offended conscience, moreover, drew aids from Nature to assert again its injured majesty, a sentiment... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove; (1. 1—4) 89 Flowers laugh before thee upon t, the ruined tow'r, The naked rock, the shady bow'r; The (own (1. AWP; EnRP; FPL; GTBS; GTBS-P; NAEL-2; NoP; OAEL-2; OBEV; WGRP On the Extinction of the Venetian... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 Seiten
...wise.] Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear 50 The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh...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;... | |
 | Martha Woodmansee, Peter Jaszi - 1994 - 482 Seiten
...Duty : 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...the most ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong.68 "The last two lines," Francis Jeffrey notes, "seem to be utterly without meaning; at least... | |
 | Gordon Epperson - 1997 - 184 Seiten
...to Duty: 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...ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. Change the third and fourth lines, Gurney suggests, to this: "Nor do we know anything so fair as the... | |
 | George Eliot - 1909 - 476 Seiten
...LXXX " 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...ancient Heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. — WORDS WORTH: Ode to Ditty. WHEN Dorothea had seen Mr. Farebrother in the morning, she had promised... | |
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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... 
