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... Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z - Seite 16220herausgegeben von - 1897Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1808 - 532 Seiten
...Godhead's mod benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing fo fair As is the fmile upon thy face ; Flowers Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou doll preferve the ftars from wrong ; And the moft ancient heavens through thee are frelh and ftronjr.... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 Seiten
...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 before thee...ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. VOL. I. B To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 466 Seiten
...existence as subservient to one spirit, conludes his address to the power of Duty in the following words : To humbler functions, awful Power! I call thee ; I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh, let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 Seiten
...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 before thee...I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh ! let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ;... | |
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 Seiten
...any thing so fair t \ \ i As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; V And Fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve...I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh ! let my weakness have an end ! \\ ' ' ?>••,—, Give unto me, made lowly wrse^' l ' The spirit... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1818 - 390 Seiten
...existence as subservient to one spirit, concludes his address to the power of Duty in the following words : To humbler functions, awful Power! I call thee: I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour; Ob, let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The... | |
| British poets - 1828 - 838 Seiten
...Lawgiver ! yet thon dost wear The- Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is hee, and thy soul received The light reflected, as...joy, in vales and glens Native or outland, lakes and funi-tions, awful Power! I call thee: I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh ! let... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 Seiten
...As is the smile upon thy face: Mowers laugh before thee on their beds; And Fragrance in thy fooling treads; Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong; And the most ancient Heavens, through Thee, arc f and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power! 1 r ill thee: 1 myself commend L'nto thy guidance... | |
| 1829 - 876 Seiten
...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 before thee...their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." Having traced these facts back to their principles, there is a strong temptation to anticipate the... | |
| Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 Seiten
...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 before thee...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong! * During the forty years that followed his marriage, he had of course his occasional afflictions; he... | |
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