 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
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887 - 490 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." It has sometimes been objected to Wordsworth's poetry, that while it is... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 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 funetions, awful Power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 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 ! 1 call thee : I myself commend unto... | |
 | 1846 - 436 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... | |
 | John Harris - 1847 - 330 pages
...union * Hence the apostrophe of the philosophic poet of nature in his Ode to Duty: " Stern lawgiver ! Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the most ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." t Bishop Berkely's Siris, p. 120. t Newton ; 31st Query, at the end of... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1847 - 374 pages
...Wielded at will that fierce democratic. PR, IT. MM. With mask, and antique pageantry. ' L'AUtgro,' 188. Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the most ancient Heavens through thee are fresh and strong. WORDSWORTH. ' ".<> to Day.' the rustic Lodge Antique ' Inacrip ttoiu.']... | |
 | 1877 - 226 pages
...critic. Jeffrey was more violent but less heeded. lie attacked these lines in the " Ode to Duty," — " Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong, And the most ancient heavens through thee are fresh and strong." Jeffrey said that this was utterly without meanreal service given, —... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 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... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1849 - 500 pages
...Wordsworth's magnificent exaggeration of the idea, in his Ode to this "stern daughter of the voice of God." " Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong, And the most ancient Heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong." We see, then, how violent is the metaphor by which we apply the term law... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1849 - 488 pages
...Wordsworth's magnificent exaggeration of the idea, in his Ode to this "stern daughter of the voice of God." " Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong, And the most ancient Heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong." We see, then, how violent is the metaphor by which we apply the term law... | |
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