| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pagini
...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...And the most ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. VOL. I. B To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pagini
...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...And the most ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from... | |
| British poets - 1828 - 838 pagini
...same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thon dost wear The- Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face; Flowers laugh...And the most ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. To humbler funi-tions, awful Power! I call thee: I myself commend Unto thy guidance from... | |
| Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 pagini
...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...the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong! * During the forty years that followed his marriage, he had of course his occasional afflictions;... | |
| Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1831 - 274 pagini
...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...the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong!* * Wordsworth's Ode to Duty, During the forty years that followed his marriage, he had... | |
| James Jolly - 1833 - 170 pagini
...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...the most ancient Heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power! I call thee; I myself commend Unto thy guidance from... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887 - 490 pagini
...keeping the heavens themselves fresh and strong by its inspiring might. " Stern Lawgiver! Yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace, Nor know...And the most ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." It has sometimes been objected to Wordsworth's poetry, that while it is full of natural... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pagini
...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...the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! 1 call thee : I myself commend unto thy guidance from... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pagini
...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...the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler funetions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from... | |
| 1846 - 436 pagini
...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...the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee ; I myself commend Unto thy guidance from... | |
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