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 227por William Wordsworth - 1893Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Wilson - 1857 - 460 páginas
...sublimity of these four lines in his " Ode to Duty," — " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." Is thy life disturbed by guilty or sinful passions ? Have they gained a mastery of thee — and art... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 456 páginas
...sublimity of these four lines in his " Ode to Duty,"— " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." Is thy life disturbed by guilty or sinful passions ? Have they gained a mastery of thee — and art... | |
| 1857 - 496 páginas
...know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thee in their beds : And fragrance in thy footing treads. Thou dost preserve...ancient Heavens through thee are fresh and strong." And therefore in his poems there will ever be a spring of something even fresher than poetic life —... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 462 páginas
...sublimity of these four lines in his " Ode to Duty,"— " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." Is thy life disturbed by guilty or sinful passions ? Have they gained a mastery of thee — and art... | |
| 1857 - 494 páginas
...know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thee in their beds : And fragrance in thy footing treads. Thou dost preserve...ancient Heavens through thee are fresh and strong." And therefore in his poems there will ever be a spring of something even fresher than poetic life —... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1857 - 488 páginas
...Nor know we anything BO fair As is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And Fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong 6. DEATH OF THK YOONO AND FAIR. — Anonymous. She died in beauty, like a rose118 blown from its parent... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1857 - 492 páginas
...smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thee in their beds : And fragrance in thy footing trends. Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; , And the...ancient Heavens through thee are fresh and strong." And therefore in his poems there will ever be a spring of something even fresher than poetic life —... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 372 páginas
...Wielded at will that fierce democratie. PR, iv. 268 With mask, and antique pageantry. ' V Allegro,' 128 Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the most ancient Heavens through thec are fresh and strong. WORDSWORTH. ' Ode to Duty ' the rustic Lodge Antique ' Inscriptions.'] Exercise.... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1858 - 550 páginas
...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...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,... | |
| WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 páginas
...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...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 !... | |
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