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 in thy footing treads Poems by William Wordsworth - Página 137por William Wordsworth - 1907 - 327 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Epes Sargent - 1854 - 494 páginas
...learned so much ; Wisdom is humble 54 that he knows no more. ' 5. Address to Duty. 160 — Wordsworth. Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most...on their beds, And Fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars trom wrong ; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and... | |
| 1854 - 456 páginas
...chance desires : I long for a repose that ever is the same. My hopes no more must change their name, Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most...on their beds; And Fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and... | |
| 1854 - 330 páginas
...TALE. Stern Lawgiver! yet dost thou wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor knew we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh...on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong, And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and... | |
| Lady - 1854 - 314 páginas
...«alt. Stern lawgiver I yet dost thou wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh...on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong, And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and... | |
| John Wilson - 1854 - 314 páginas
...scope and spirit, but by those who feel the sublimity of these four lines in his " Ode to Duty"— " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong And the most ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong."... | |
| Royal Institute of Great Britain - 1854 - 344 páginas
...poets, has not failed to detect their kinship, however, when, in his noble ' Ode to Duty/ he says :— Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads: Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong, And the most ancient heavens through Thee are fresh and strong.... | |
| 1855 - 458 páginas
...chance desires : I long for a repose that ever is the same. My hopes no more must change their name, Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most...on their beds; And Fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and... | |
| Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 páginas
...chance desires : I long for a repose that ever is the same. My hopes no more must change their name, Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...on their beds ; And Fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and... | |
| Rosalie Bell - 1855 - 462 páginas
...wound. Duty, to her, had suddenly become a " stern lawgiver;" and though she might have exclaimed, •' Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads," yet she must have acknowledged that beneath the flowers there were very sharp thorns. The next day,... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 páginas
...a repose that ever is the same. Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control; Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most...on their beds; And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and... | |
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