 | William Wordsworth - 1853 - 300 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...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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1853 - 604 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...and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I cull thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh ! let my weakness have an end !... | |
 | James Spencer CANNON - 1853 - 678 pages
...said : "Stern lawgiver ! yet them dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh...preserve the stars from wrong, And the most ancient heavons through thee are freah and strong." LECTURE IX. QUALIFICATIONS OF THE PASTORAL OFFICE, CONTINUED.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 392 pages
...feel the weight of 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...I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; 0, let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 pages
...Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's moat benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair Aa is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before 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... | |
 | 1854 - 330 pages
...DUTY: A TALE. STERN Lawgiver ! yet dost thou The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor knew we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. WOBDSWOBTH. "WHY do you dwell so much, dear mamma, upon the necessity of acting from a principle of... | |
 | Lady - 1854 - 326 pages
...Staty Stern lawgiver! yet dost thou wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we any thing BO fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. WORDSWORTH. "WHY do you dwell so much, dear mamma, upon the necessity of acting from a principle of... | |
 | Clara Arnold - 1855 - 322 pages
...TAiE. STEBN Lawgiver! yet dost thou wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor knew we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. \VOBDSWORTH. "WHY do you dwell so much, dear mamma, upon the necessity of acting from a principle of... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...feel the weight of 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...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. To humble functions, awful Power ! I call thee ; I myself commend Unto thy guidance, from this hour ;... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 pages
...gathered now like sleeping Jtewirs," In the following bold imagery he embodies the idea of Duty. " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." But the poem in which this lofty feeling of intimate communion with nature is most unfolded as a Philosophy... | |
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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... 
