 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 - Sida 201efter William Wordsworth - 1897 - 522 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 sidor
...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 treads; Thou dost preserve...ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. VOL. IF To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 sidor
...any thing so fair t \ \ i As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; V And Fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve...functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh ! let my weakness have an end ! \\ ' ' ?>••,—, Give unto... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 sidor
...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...functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh, let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise,... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 sidor
...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...Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. To humbler funi-tions, awful Power! I call thee: I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh ! let... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 sidor
...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...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong! * During the forty years that followed his marriage, he had of course his occasional afflictions; he... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1831 - 274 sidor
...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...thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong, And the most ancient... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 sidor
...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 dost preserve...functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh! letmy weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise,... | |
 | James Jolly - 1833 - 170 sidor
...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...functions, awful Power! I call thee; I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour; O let my weakness have an end! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The... | |
 | 1854 - 332 sidor
...knew we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thoe on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. WOKDSWOBTH. "WHY do you dwell so much, dear mamma, upon the necessity of acting from a principle of... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887 - 490 sidor
...the stars from wrong," as keeping the heavens themselves fresh and strong by its inspiring might. " Stern Lawgiver! Yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most...thy face. Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads. Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong, And the most ancient... | |
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