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 before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads: Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And... The theory of practice, an ethical enquiry - Page 290by Shadworth Hollway Hodgson - 1870Full view - About this book
| Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...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 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... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...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 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... | |
| Great Britain - 1857 - 496 pages
...men of that day, had seen the light of the countenance of God shining clear into the face of Duty: " Stern Lawgiver ! Yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thee in their beds : And fragrance in thy footing treads. Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And... | |
| 1857 - 494 pages
...men of that day, had seen the light of the countenance of God shining clear into the face of Duty : " Stern Lawgiver ! Yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thee in their beds : And fragrance in thy footing treads. Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1857 - 492 pages
...the light of the countenance of God shining clear into the face of Duty: " Stern Lawgiver ! Yet them dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor...the 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... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1857 - 480 pages
...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 The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fanAs is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing... | |
| Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...has learned so much : Wisdom is humble54 that he knows no more. 5 ADDRESS TO DUTY.™ — Wordtworth. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we anything BO fair As is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And Fragrance... | |
| Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...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 The Godhead's...thy face. Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong, And the Ciost ancient... | |
| William Wordsworth - Bookbinding - 1858 - 550 pages
...chance desires : My hopes 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 know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And fragrance... | |
| Epes Sargent - American literature - 1858 - 480 pages
...Stern lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we anything so Tair 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 tho most ancient... | |
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