 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 pages
...Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's moat benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair Aa is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee...ancient Heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour;... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1854 - 416 pages
...nature bows, and from which all her grace and beauty proceeds : — ' Flowers laugh before thee in their beds, And Fragrance in thy footing treads ;...ancient Heavens through thee are fresh and strong." And, doubtless, the more we studied the secrets of nature, and entered into her most intricate relations,... | |
 | 1884 - 874 pages
...called duty the " Stern daughter of tho voice of God I " but in the same poem he acknowledges "But thou dost wear The God-head's most benignant grace;...we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face." Duty is only a hard taskmistress until we know how to learn her lessons. We may say that Duty is her... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...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...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee ; I myself commend Unto thy guidance, from this hour... | |
 | 1855 - 458 pages
...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...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power . I call thee ; I myself commend ' Unto thy guidance, from this hour... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1855 - 704 pages
...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...ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | Clara Arnold - 1855 - 322 pages
...TAiE. STEBN 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...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. \VOBDSWORTH. "WHY do you dwell so much, dear mamma, upon the necessity of acting from a principle of... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...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...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. To humble functions, awful Power ! I call thee ; I myself commend Unto thy guidance, from this hour... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 pages
...gathered now like sleeping Jtewirs," In the following bold imagery he embodies the idea of Duty. " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." But the poem in which this lofty feeling of intimate communion with nature is most unfolded as a Philosophy... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 490 pages
...more. 5 ADDRESS TO Di-TV.1* — Wwittvorth. Stem Lt ygiver ! yet them dost wear The Godhead's must benignant grace ; Nor know we anything so fair As...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong 6. DEATH or THE YOUNG AND FAIR. — Anonymous. She died in beauty, like a rose16- blown from its parent... | |
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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... 
