 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...  Quiet Hours: A Collection of Poems - Seite 46von Mary Wilder Tileston - 1874 - 182 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Anne Manning - 1863 - 398 Seiten
...were cheerful and hopeful, for was not Eleanor on the path of Duty ? and she found it a pleasant one. 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. The journey appeared much shorter to Eleanor, now that... | |
 | Emma Poel - 1863 - 568 Seiten
...how to embrace.' SECOND PART. CONTINUED DKVELOPEMENT, AND PREPARATION FOR AFTER WORK. (1817—1831.) 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... | |
 | Golden gleanings - 1863 - 342 Seiten
...To the Supreme Being. 145 Me this unchartered freedom tires ; I feel the weight of 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... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 Seiten
...of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control ; But in the quietness of thought : Me this unchartered freedom tires ; I feel the weight of chance desires : My hopes no more must change their name ; I long for a repose which ever is the same.... | |
 | Life-lights - 1864 - 336 Seiten
...the quietness of thought : Me this uncharter'd freedom tires ; I feel the weight of 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... | |
 | 1864 - 334 Seiten
...the quietness of thought : Me this uncharter'd freedom tires ; I feel the weight of 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... | |
 | 1901 - 834 Seiten
...are unprofitable; the other, in which we who look on cannot refrain from recalling the ode : — " Yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace, Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face." Let us note another marked characteristic in the discussion... | |
 | 1865 - 392 Seiten
...of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control ; But in the quietness of thought : Me this unchartered freedom tires ; I...their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the... | |
 | R. C. J. - 1866 - 304 Seiten
...of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control; But in the quietness of thought : Me this unchartered freedom tires; I...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... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1866 - 304 Seiten
...of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control ; But in the quietness of thought. Me this unchartered freedom tires ; I...thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Duty. 181 Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee... | |
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