 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...  Quiet Hours: A Collection of Poems - Página 46por Mary Wilder Tileston - 1874 - 182 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 308 páginas
...dreaded his own distaste for his spoiled life, which would leave him in motiveless levity. CHAPTER LXXX. "Stern lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we any thing BO fair As is the smile upon thy face; • Flowers langh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in... | |
 | Henry Bleckly - 1873 - 172 páginas
...parsley to an incorruptible one of power and activity and moral conquest. Of duty, Wordsworth says — " 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." Mr. T. (reads). " Among the many wise sayings which... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 392 páginas
...spoiled life, which would leave him in motiveless levity. vol. rv. CHAPTER LXXX. " Stem lawgiver I 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... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1874 - 96 páginas
...the quietness of thought : Me this unchartered freedom tirec ; I feel the weight of chance desires. My hopes no more must change their name ; I long for a repose that ever is the same. 40 Stern Law-giver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we anything so... | |
 | William Jackson - 1874 - 432 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. 1 Not seeking in the school of pride For 'precepts over dignified,' Denial... | |
 | Robert Pinsky - 1978 - 204 páginas
...of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control; But in the quietness of thought: Me this unchartered freedom tires; I feel...their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. This is the language of abstraction in the old sense. In a way, it is even more alien to the universe... | |
 | Doris Eveline Faulkner Jones - 1982 - 244 páginas
...compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control ; But in the quietness of thought. Me this uncharted freedom tires ; I feel the weight of chance-desires...their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. Yet not the less would I throughout Still act according to the voice Of my own wish ; and feel past... | |
 | Fritz Heider - 1982 - 340 páginas
...variations in incidental or momentary factors. When Wordsworth says: I feel the weight of chance desires; My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that is ever the same. (Ode to Duty) he contrasts the shifting personal desires with the invariancy of an... | |
 | Iowa State Bar Association - 1896 - 1030 páginas
...of duty goes into the mighty work which is ever ours. How applicable here are the words of the poet: "Stern Lawgiver! Yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know I anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face; Flowers laugh before the on their beds, And fragrance... | |
 | Louis Jacobs - 1987 - 166 páginas
...not an unpleasant burden. This custom reminds one of William Wordsworth's lines in his "Ode to Duty': 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... | |
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