 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 396 pages
...chance-desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance...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 - 1865 - 316 pages
...same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh...footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong j And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power... | |
 | R. C. J. - 1866 - 304 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... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1866 - 304 pages
...ever is the same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Duty. 181 Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon...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... | |
 | James Chandler - 1984 - 338 pages
...invariable conformity to moral law just as the activity of flowers and stars conforms to natural law: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance...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;... | |
 | Louis Jacobs - 1987 - 166 pages
...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...Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance on thy footing treads. "A custom developed by the mystics of the sixteenth century is to stay up all... | |
 | 1875 - 398 pages
...from duty fulfilled. In his " Ode to Duty " he brings all under her stem but benignant power : — " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. " Offended conscience, moreover, drew aids from Nature to assert again its injured majesty, a sentiment... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove; (1. 1—4) 89 Flowers laugh before thee upon t, the ruined tow'r, The naked rock, the shady bow'r; The (own (1. AWP; EnRP; FPL; GTBS; GTBS-P; NAEL-2; NoP; OAEL-2; OBEV; WGRP On the Extinction of the Venetian... | |
 | David P. Haney - 2010 - 289 pages
...image, "wear[ ing]," and thus expressing his grace the way a smile represents a person's disposition: Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most...we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face. (49-52, in Poems, in Two Volumes 107) The following statement by the Wanderer exhibits both views of... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1994 - 228 pages
...become, my dear little boy, even though one has to pay a heavy price for the blessing. CHAPTER FIVE Stem Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant...heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. WORDSWORTH But what became of little Tom? He slipped away off the rocks into the water, as I said before. But... | |
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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... 
