 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 424 ページ
...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... | |
 | Shadworth Hollway Hodgson - 1870 - 590 ページ
...addresses : " Stem 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...ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong." Here the order and beauty of the universe are attributed to the obedience which it pays to the commands... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 ページ
...same. VI. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace I Nor know we anytning so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh...ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong. vir. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this... | |
 | Shadworth Hollway Hodgson - 1870 - 588 ページ
...: " 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...ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong." Here the order and beauty of the universe are attributed to the obedience which it pays to the commands... | |
 | John Wilson - 1870 - 722 ページ
...scope and spirit, but by those whc feel the sublimity of these four lines in hit " Ode to Duty"— " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance...wrong And the most ancient heavens through thee are fresb and strong." Is thy life disturbed by guilty or sinful passions ? Have they gained a mastery... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1871 - 622 ページ
...in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control ; But in the quietness of thought ; Me this unchartered freedom tires ; I feel the weight of chance desires...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 ;... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1871 - 350 ページ
...the level of his meditations, throughout his poetry. Take the following, from the "Ode to Duty": — Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...wrong ; And the most ancient heavens through thee arefreih arid strong. In a descriptive poem called " The Gypsies," there is a very striking instance... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 ページ
...in me wrought, I supplicaie for Thy control ; But in the quietness of thought, Me this unchartered freedom tires — I feel the weight of chance desires...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 [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 ページ
...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 ; Oh, let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me. made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The... | |
 | 1872 - 710 ページ
...feel the weight of chance desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that form of worship that hath 1 230 DUTY. DUTY. Unto thy guidance from this hour ; О let my weakness hare an end I Give unto me,... | |
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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... 
