 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pages
...be theirs while life shall last! And Thou, if they should totter, teach them to stand fast ! Serene will be our days and bright, And happy will our nature...is an unerring light, And joy its own security. And bless'd are they who in the main This faith, even now, do entertain: Live in the spirit of this creed... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...theirs while life shall last ! And Thou, if they should totter, teach them to stand fast .l Serene will be our days and bright, And happy will our nature...is an unerring light, And joy its own security. And blest are they who in the main This faith, even now, do entertain : Live in the spirit of this creed;... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...theirs while life shall last ! And Thou, if they should totter, teach them to stand fast ! Serene %vill be our days and bright, And happy will our nature...is an unerring light, And joy its own security. And blest are they who in the main This faith, even now, do entertain : Live in the spirit of this creed... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pages
...Long may the kindly impulse last! lint Thou, if they should totter, teach them to Hand fait ! Serene will be our days and bright, And happy will our nature...love is an unerring light, And joy its own security. Aud they a blissful course may hold Even now, who, not unwisely bold, Live in the spirit of this creed... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 pages
...be theirs while life shall last ! [fast! And Thou, if they should totter, teach them to stand Serene will be our days and bright, And happy will our nature...is an unerring light, And joy its own security. And bless'd are they who in the main This faith, even now, do entertain : Live in the spirit of this creed... | |
 | 1833 - 742 pages
...vain temptations dost let free, And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity !" * * " * s Serene will be our days, and bright, And happy will our nature...love is an unerring light, And joy its own security." I shall conclude with a sonnet, the patiate upon, for yon will instantly feel beauty of which I need... | |
 | 1834 - 864 pages
...in the beautiful stanza following that which we last quoted from the ' Ode to Duty :'— • Serene will be our days and bright, And happy will our nature...unwisely bold, Live in the spirit of this creed ; Yet find that other strength, according to their need.' — vol. iii. p. 270. We have now sketched as many... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1842 - 642 pages
...that they transcend, as yet, all the limitations that separate men from love and mutual trust. Serene will be our days and bright, And happy will our nature...is an unerring light And Joy its own security. And blest are they who in the main This faith, even now, do entertain; Live in the spirit of this creed... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1843 - 278 pages
...if, through confidence misplaced, They fail, thy saving arms, dread power! around them cast. Serene will be our days and bright, And happy will our nature...love is an unerring light, And joy its own security. 110 I they a blissful course may hold Even now, who, not unwisely bold, Live in the spirit of this... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1844 - 454 pages
...Long may the kindly impulse last ! And thou, if they should totter, teach them to stand fast. Serene will be our days, and bright, And happy will our nature...unwisely bold, Live in the spirit of this creed, Yet find that other strength according to their need." Ibid. Stanza I. 5. p. 26. " Urania, heavenly bright"... | |
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Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth: Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot; Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh! 
