 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 Cornhill Magazine - Page 82edited by - 1878Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pages
...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 most ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. VOL. IF To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; V And Fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong ; And the most ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...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 most ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...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 most ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. To humbler funi-tions, awful Power! I call thee: I myself commend Unto thy... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 pages
...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 most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong! * During the forty years that followed his marriage, he had of course his... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 858 pages
...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; And the most ancient Heavens through tin r are fresh and strong. To humhler functions, awful Power! I call thee : I myself commend Unto... | |
 | James Jolly - 1833 - 170 pages
...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 most ancient Heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power! I call thee; I myself commend Unto thy... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thec on their beds ; And fragrance in thy footing (reads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the most ancient heavens through tbee are fresh and strong." Vol. ip 73. The two last lines seem to be utterly without meaning; at least... | |
 | John Frederick Denison Maurice - 1837 - 322 pages
...chartered * I need scarcely remind my readers of the beautiful passage in Wordsworth's Ode to Duty, ending, Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong. And the most ancient Heavens, through Thee are fresh and strong, L 2 212 CEREMONIES. libertine, yet persuade itself that it can be free without... | |
 | 1843 - 184 pages
...is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance on thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong, And the most ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong. I call thee ! — I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; O... | |
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