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... Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Página 308de John Wilson - 1842Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| British poets - 1828 - 838 páginas
...more must change their name, I long for a repose which ever is the same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thon ]J g < b U e8k Tyf ; Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong; And the most ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 páginas
...of chance-desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the s Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Mowers laugh before thee on their beds; And Fragrance in thy fooling treads; Thou dost preserve the... | |
| 1829 - 876 páginas
...of one who, in his address to Duty, shews that he has obeyed her call, and received her rewards. " Stern Lawgiver '. yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." Having traced these facts back to their principles, there is a strong temptation to anticipate the... | |
| 1829 - 930 páginas
...of one who, in his address to Duty, shews that he has obeyed her call, and received her rewards. " Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...As is the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thce on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads." Having traced these facts back to their principles,... | |
| Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 páginas
...the 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...on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong, And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and... | |
| 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
...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...grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile npon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou... | |
| Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 858 páginas
...they hreed a second Will more wisi.. Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most henignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh hefore thee on their heds; And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong;... | |
| James Jolly - 1833 - 170 páginas
...terrors overawe; From vain temptations dost set free ; And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity. Stern lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...on their beds, And Fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong, And the most ancient Heavens, through thee, are fresh and... | |
| 1835 - 932 páginas
...in which the lofty vein is тегу unsuccessfully attempted. This is the concluding stanza : -- " Stern lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thec on their beds ; And fragrance in thy footing (reads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong... | |
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