 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; And...  The Methodist Review - Page 3571898Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 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...fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, ore fresh and strong. To humbler functions,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 pages
...chance-desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the 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 before thee on their beds ; And fragrance... | |
 | 1851 - 702 pages
...realized the poet's rapturous vision of her celestial compensations: — " Stern Lawgiver ! yet them dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace, Nor...we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face." It has been truly said that "men of intemperate minds cannot be free ; their passions forge their fetters... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...dost_wear The Godhead's most Awrfignaiyt grace ; . t Nor know we any thing scTfair ,, ./> • ' ^Aa ԟ =fD ! F d { \ 4 a 9 KZĨ O4RM } ˞V w #B / s T w ?9 # [ Ihy footing treads; Tnou dost preserve the Stars from_vyrong ; ' And the most ancient Heavens, through... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 750 pages
...My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. t See Nole. Stem 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... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1852 - 438 pages
...humble servant, "W. WORDSWORTH." Here follows a specimen of this gentleman's writing — " Great ' Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The godhead's most benignant...grace, Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile ' on George's face. " ' Flowers laugh before ' him ' on their beds, And fragrance in" his ' footing... | |
 | John Wilson - 1852 - 336 pages
...scope and spirit, but by those who feel the sublimity of these four lines in his " Ode to Duty" — " 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." Is thy life disturbed... | |
 | 1852 - 516 pages
...sensitive hankering to duty, Stern daughter of the voice of God ; who, in all her sternness, yet wears The Godhead's most benignant grace, Nor know we anything so fair . , , As is the smile upon her face — ,,i.. •'• .;] qualities these, in Jane's character, which have an irresistible power... | |
 | 1852 - 536 pages
...sensitive hankering to duty, Stern daughter of the voice of God ; who, in all her sternness, yet wears The Godhead's most benignant grace, Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon her face — qualities these, in Jane's character, which have an irresistible power of attraction,... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pages
...over dignified,' Denial and restraint I prize, No farther than they breed a second Will, more 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 before thee on their beds ; And Fragrance... | |
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