 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, - Página 75por William Wordsworth - 1807Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 páginas
...learned so much j Wisdom is humble54 that he knows no more. 5. ADDBESS TO DuiY.160 — Wordsworth. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fanAs is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And Fragrance in thy footing... | |
 | S S. Pugh - 1867 - 244 páginas
...and giving grace even to its sternest aspects, has been finely caught by one of our poets : — ' ' 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... | |
 | Sunday readings - 1867 - 232 páginas
...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... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 páginas
...chance-desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that evor 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... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 páginas
...chance desires : My hopes no more must change their name ; I long for a repose that ever is the same. Stern law-giver ! 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... | |
 | Richard Hooker - 1868 - 200 páginas
...Hooker, in the Ecclesiastical Polity, has gone beyond this. Compare Wordsworth, ' Ode to Duty:' . Ster n Law-giver ! 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... | |
 | Afternoon lectures - 1869 - 378 páginas
...to Duty has sung her praise in words which I trust are in the memories of most who hear me : — " 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 in their beds, And fragrance... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 páginas
...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 anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And fragrance... | |
 | 1869 - 384 páginas
...to Duty has sung her praise in words which I trust are in the memories of most who hear me : — " 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 in their beds, And fragrance... | |
 | 1869 - 436 páginas
...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 \ve anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance... | |
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