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... Quiet Hour: A Collection of Poems - Page 47by Mary Wilder Tileston - 1886 - 182 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds; And Fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong; And the most 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, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...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...end ! \\ ' ' ?>••,—, Give unto me, made lowly wrse^' l ' The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth... | |
| 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... | |
| British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...upon thy face; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And Fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong; And the most ancient...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... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pages
...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... | |
| Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 pages
...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 the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong! * During the forty years that followed his marriage, he had of course his occasional afflictions; he... | |
| Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 pages
...npon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient...myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh! letmy weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence... | |
| Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 858 pages
...upon thy face ; Flowers laugh hefore thee on their heds; And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient Heavens through tin r are fresh and strong. To humhler functions, awful Power! I call thee : I myself commend Unto... | |
| James Jolly - 1833 - 170 pages
...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 the most ancient...I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour; O let my weakness have an end! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence... | |
| 1835 - 932 pages
...upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thec on their beds ; And fragrance in thy footing (reads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the most ancient heavens through tbee are fresh and strong." Vol. ip 73. The two last lines seem to be utterly without meaning; at least... | |
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