 I, loving freedom, and untried ; No sport of every random gust, Yet being to myself a guide, Too blindly have reposed my trust; And oft, when in my heart was heard Thy timely mandate, I deferred The task, in smoother walks to stray ; But thee I now would...  Essays and Poems by Frances Mary Owen - Page 161by Frances Mary Owen - 1887 - 252 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...Resolved that nothing e'er should press Upon my present happiness, I shoved unwelcome tasks away ; But thee I now would serve more strictly, if I may....strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy controul; But in the quietness of thought: Me this uncharter'd freedom tires; I feel the weight of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pages
...my present happiness, I shoved unwelcome tasks away ; But thee I now would serve more strictly, Jf I may. Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy controul; But in the quietness of thought: Me this uncharter'd freedom tires; I feel the weight of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...oft, when in my heart was heard Thy timely mandate, I deferred The task imposed, from day to day ; But thee I now would serve more strictly, if I may....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.... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...mandate, I deferred The task imposed, from day to day ; But thee I now would serve more strictly, if 1 may. ' Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong...quietness of thought : Me this unchartered freedom tires ; 1 feel the weight of chance-desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...being to myself a guide, Too blindly have reposed my trust : And oft, when in my heart was heard Thy timely mandate, I deferred The task, in smoother walks...stray ; But thee I now would serve more strictly, ifrl may. Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pages
...And oft, «'i. ii in my heart was heard Thy timely mandate, I deferred The task, in smoother walks lo stray; But thee I now would serve more strictly, if...compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control ; Hut in the quietness of thought: Me this unchartered freedom tires; 1 feel the weight of chance-desires... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...deferred The task imposed, from day to day, But thee I now would serve more strictly, if I may. Though no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in...control; But in the quietness of thought, Me this unchartcred freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance-desires ; My hopes no more must change their... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 pages
...: Resolved that nothing e'er should press Upon my present happiness, I shoved unwelcome tasks away; But thee I now would serve more strictly, if I may....control; But in the quietness of thought : Me this uncharter'd freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires: My hopes no more must change their... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 858 pages
...: Resolved that nothing e'er should press Upon my present happiness, I shoved unwelcome tasks away; But thee I now would serve more strictly, if I may. Through no disturhance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought. I supplicate for thy control; Iint in... | |
 | 1842 - 574 pages
...kindle or restrain." ' In the ode to Duty again, he speaks in the same sense as in the sonnet — ' Me this unchartered freedom tires, I feel the weight of chance desires.' But the spirit of a moral liberty as growing out of the spirit of duty or tempered by it, is, in truth,... | |
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