 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...  Poems,: In Two Volumes, - Page 75by William Wordsworth - 1807Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...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... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - Conduct of life - 1831 - 274 pages
...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 anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 378 pages
...throughout Still act according to the voice Of my own wish ; and feel past doubt That my submissiveness was choice : Not seeking in the school of pride For...grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile npon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 858 pages
...throughout Still act according to the voice Of my own wish ; and feel past douht That my suhmissiveness was choice : Not seeking in the school of pride For...Denial and restraint I prize No farther than they hreed a second Will more wisi.. Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most henignant grace... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Education - 1836 - 414 pages
...of one who, in his address to Duty, shows that he has obeyed h:r call, and received her rewards. " Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so failAs is the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost 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... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1852 - 438 pages
...humble servant, "W. WORDSWORTH." Here follows a specimen of this gentleman's writing — " Great ' Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The godhead's most benignant grace, Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile ' on George's face. " ' Flowers laugh before ' him ' on their beds,... | |
 | H. C. Foster - English poetry - 1853 - 378 pages
...chance desires ; My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the 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 before thee on their beds ; And Fragrance... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Religious poetry, English - 1854 - 374 pages
...chance desires ; My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the 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 before thee on their beds ; And Fragrance... | |
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