 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 before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong...  The English Poets - Page 53edited by - 1893Full view - About this book
 | S S. Pugh - 1867 - 244 pages
...— ' ' 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...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." One of the finest examples in early scriptural history of this fidelity to duty — fidelity embracing... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fanAs is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. 6. DEATH OF THE YOUNG AND FAIR. — Anonymous. She died in beauty, like a rose18'2 blown from its parent... | |
 | Modern culture - 1867 - 458 pages
...has not failed to detect their kinship, however, when, in his noble " Ode to Duty," he says : — " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance...ancient heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. " Good, then, being the great end of all the established conditions of our life, evil is, and must... | |
 | Arthur Henfrey - 1867 - 502 pages
...poets, has not failed to detect their kinship, however, when, in his noble "Ode to Duty," he says:— " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance...ancient heavens through Thee are fresh and strong." Good, then, being the great end of all the established conditions of our life, evil is, and must ever... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 710 pages
...same. Stern law-giver ! 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...guidance from this hour ; Oh, let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly, wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pages
...same. Stern law-giver ! 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...fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power 1 I call thee ; I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh, let my weakness have an end... | |
 | Richard Hooker - 1868 - 200 pages
...Duty:' . Ster n Law-giver ! 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...ancient heavens, through Thee are fresh and strong.' GLOSSARY. Ability, ii. 3 (in the early editions spelt ' habilitie' and ' ability,' sometimes in the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1868 - 544 pages
...thou dost weaV The Godhead's most benignant grace ! Nor know we anytning so fair As is the smile u,jon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong. VII. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...same. 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...from this hour ; Oh ! let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1869 - 752 pages
...nnchartered freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance-desires: My hopes no more must change their name, 1 long for a repose that ever is the same. Stern Lawgiver!...wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, arc fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power! I call thee: I myself commend Unto thy guidance... | |
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