 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...  Present Day Papers - Page 181899Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...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." Both as a moral and as a. religious poet, Wordsworth may take a high station. In the latter point of... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887 - 490 pages
...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...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." It has sometimes been objected to Wordsworth's poetry, that while it is full of natural religion it... | |
 | 1843 - 184 pages
...thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance on thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong. I call thee ! — I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; O let my weakness have an end... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1843 - 278 pages
...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; Thttu dost preserve the stare from wrong, And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 pages
...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...ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...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...ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! 1 call thee : I myself commend unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...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...ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler funetions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...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...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee ; I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...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 stare from wrong ; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions,... | |
 | 1877 - 226 pages
...critic. Jeffrey was more violent but less heeded. lie attacked these lines in the " Ode to Duty," — " Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong, And the most...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." Jeffrey said that this was utterly without meanreal service given, — have been full of them ; I ing... | |
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