 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...  Poems of Imagination and Fancy - Page 80by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 112 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1808 - 532 pages
...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 pages
...wise. 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...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pages
...Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair v As is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before...ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. VOL. IF To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 466 pages
...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 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...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 pages
...Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we 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 the Stars from wrong ; And the most ancient... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1818 - 390 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1822 - 296 pages
...Godhead's most benignant grace, Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flow'rs laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." Wordsworth's Ode to Duty. A MERCHANTS SON. THERE are times when the mind indulges itself in a sort... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1822 - 310 pages
...Godhead's most benignant grace. Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flow'rs laugh before thee on their beds. And fragrance in thy footing treads." Wordsworth's Ode to Duty. A MERCHANT'S SON. THERE are times when the mind indulges itself in a sort... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thon dost wear The- Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face; Flowers laugh...Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. To humbler funi-tions, awful Power! I call thee: I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh ! let... | |
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