 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 in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong...  The Poems of William Wordsworth - Page 361by William Wordsworth - 1849 - 619 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...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...from wrong; 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...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...from wrong; And the most ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. VOL. IF To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...feel the weight of 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...from wrong; 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...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...wrong ; 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... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...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...from wrong; 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... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1829 - 876 pages
...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...their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." Having traced these facts back to their principles, there is a strong temptation to anticipate the... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1829 - 930 pages
...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...As is the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thce on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." Having traced these facts back to their principles,... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - Conduct of life - 1830 - 334 pages
...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...wrong, And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong! * During the forty years that followed his marriage, he had of course his occasional... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - Conduct of life - 1831 - 274 pages
...: — 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...wrong, And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong!* * Wordsworth's Ode to Duty, During the forty years that followed his marriage,... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 378 pages
...thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile npon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds...from wrong; 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... | |
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