 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 British Poets - Page 2681865Full view - About this book
 | 1808 - 532 pages
...Godhead's mod benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing fo fair As is the fmile upon thy face ; Flowers Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou doll preferve the ftars from wrong ; And the moft ancient heavens through thee are frelh and ftronjr.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1812 - 466 pages
...existence as subservient to one spirit, conludes 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 ; Oh, let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 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...I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh ! let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ;... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...any thing so fair t \ \ i As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; V And Fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve...I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh ! let my weakness have an end ! \\ ' ' ?>••,—, Give unto me, made lowly wrse^' l ' The spirit... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 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... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1822 - 296 pages
...Godhead's most benignant grace, Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flow'rs laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." Wordsworth's Ode to Duty. A MERCHANTS SON. THERE are times when the mind indulges itself in a sort... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - English fiction - 1822 - 310 pages
...Godhead's most benignant grace. Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flow'rs laugh before thee on their beds. And fragrance in thy footing treads." Wordsworth's Ode to Duty. A MERCHANT'S SON. THERE are times when the mind indulges itself in a sort... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 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...I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh, let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 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...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... | |
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