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 Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Página 498por William Wordsworth - 1856 - 539 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 páginas
...precepts 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 v As is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds; And Fragrance in thy footing... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 páginas
...the quietness of thought: Me this uncharter'd freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose which ever is the same. Yet hot the less would I throughout Still act according to the voice Of my... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 páginas
...I now would serve more strictly, if I may. Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control ; But...no more must change their name, I long for a repose which ever is the same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor... | |
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 páginas
...now would serve more strictly, if 1 may. ' Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control ; But...quietness of thought : Me this unchartered freedom tires ; 1 feel the weight of chance-desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose... | |
| 1843 - 832 páginas
...use — " Me this uncliarter'd freedom tires ; I feel the weight of chance desires ; My hopes no moro must change their name — I long for a repose that ever is the same." And if it seem strange to any one that Frederick Schlegel, the learned, the profound, the comprehensive,... | |
| British poets - 1828 - 838 páginas
...I now would serve more strictly, if I may. Though no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control; But in the quietness of thought, Me this unchartcred freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance-desires ; My hopes no more must change their... | |
| Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1831 - 274 páginas
...poet wove a garland for duty — so generally spoken and thought of as a cold and joyless thing : — 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... | |
| Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 páginas
...I now would serve more strictly, if I may. Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control; But in the quietness of thought : Me this uncharter'd freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires: My hopes no more must change their... | |
| Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 858 páginas
...the quietness of thought : Me this uncharter'd freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires: My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose which ever is the same. Yet not the less would l throughout Still act according to the voice Of my... | |
| Harriet Martineau - 1836 - 414 páginas
...of one who, in his address to Duty, shows that he has obeyed h:r call, and received her rewards. " Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so failAs is the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing... | |
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