 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
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1880 - 434 páginas
...that day, had seen the light of the countenance of God shining clear into the face of Duty : — " 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 [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 páginas
...chance-desires : My hopes no more must change their name, l 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1880 - 362 páginas
...chance-desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. Ster n 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... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1880 - 460 páginas
...principle of Duty that the finest growths of Character have arisen. Thus sings Wordsworth of Duty:— " Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know I anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face-; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance... | |
 | 1880 - 844 páginas
...held appointed orbits by this living, breathing moral absorbed into the material : Stern lawgiver 1 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... | |
 | Joan Bennett - 168 páginas
...her pages to find the prescriptions of that 'Stern Daughter of the voice of God' whom men call Duty: 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... | |
 | Iowa State Bar Association - 1896 - 1030 páginas
...of duty goes into the mighty work which is ever ours. How applicable here are the words of the poet: "Stern Lawgiver! Yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know I anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face; Flowers laugh before the on their beds, And fragrance... | |
 | Louis Jacobs - 1987 - 166 páginas
...not an unpleasant burden. This custom reminds one of William Wordsworth's lines in his "Ode to Duty': 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... | |
 | David P. Haney - 2010 - 289 páginas
...That my submissive-ness was choice: Not seeking in the school of pride For 'precepts overdignified', Denial and restraint I prize No farther than they breed a second Will more wise. (41-48, in Poems in Two Volumes 106-7) Similarly, in The Excursion the law of duty is invoked by the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 páginas
...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...Will more wise.] Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear 50 The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face:... | |
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