 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
 | 1863 - 438 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...; And the most ancient Heavens, through thee, are fres) and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 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...footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; <Vnd the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful power... | |
 | Emma Poel - 1863 - 568 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 in thy footing triads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the most ancient heavens through thee are fresh... | |
 | James Chandler - 1984 - 338 pages
...invariable conformity to moral law just as the activity of flowers and stars conforms to natural law: 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;... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - 1949 - 802 pages
...philosophy better than Wordsworth in his identification of duty with the deepest laws of physical nature :14 Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most...ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. But his finest poem is not Stoical: it is Platonic. This is the ode, Intimations of Immortality from... | |
 | 1875 - 398 pages
...from duty fulfilled. In his " Ode to Duty " he brings all under her stem but benignant power : — " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. " Offended conscience, moreover, drew aids from Nature to assert again its injured majesty, a sentiment... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove; (1. 1—4) 89 Flowers laugh before thee upon t, the ruined tow'r, The naked rock, the shady bow'r; The (own (1. AWP; EnRP; FPL; GTBS; GTBS-P; NAEL-2; NoP; OAEL-2; OBEV; WGRP On the Extinction of the Venetian... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pages
...50 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. To humbler functions, awful Power! I call thee: I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour;... | |
 | Martha Woodmansee, Peter Jaszi - 1994 - 482 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...the most ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong.68 "The last two lines," Francis Jeffrey notes, "seem to be utterly without meaning; at least... | |
 | Gordon Epperson - 1997 - 184 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. Change the third and fourth lines, Gurney suggests, to this: "Nor do we know anything so fair as the... | |
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