| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...according to the voice Of my own wish ; and feel past doubt That my submissiveiiess was choice : . ' Not seeking in the school of pride For " precepts...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... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 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 any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And Fragrance... | |
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 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 any thing so fair t \ \ i As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ;... | |
| Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1822 - 310 pages
...MERCHANT'S SON. " My gentler rtst is on a thought; Conscious of doing what I ought." Jlndrea Marvell. " Stern Law-giver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace. Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flow'rs laugh before thee on their beds. And fragrance... | |
| Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1822 - 308 pages
...MERCHANT'S SON. " My gentler rest is on a thought, Conscious of doing what I ought." Andrew Marvell. " Stern Law-giver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace, Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flow'rs laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance... | |
| 1829 - 930 pages
...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 most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thce on their beds, And fragrance... | |
| 1829 - 876 pages
...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 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... | |
| Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 pages
...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 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... | |
| Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1831 - 274 pages
...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 in thy... | |
| Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 pages
...act according to the voice Of my own wish ; and feel past doubt That my submissiveness was choice : Not seeking in the school of pride For ' precepts...wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile npon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And fragrance... | |
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