 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1879 - Страниц: 390
...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 in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1879 - Страниц: 362
...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 in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve... | |
 | 1879 - Страниц: 238
...reflect on the obstacles we have met. — [Sylvester Judd.] TO DUTY. 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... | |
 | William Brunton - 1879 - Страниц: 180
...I give, So fully give to thee, and must while soul and spirit live I THE CHOICE OF DUTY. Thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace : Nor know we anything so fair As the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And fragrance in thy footing treads,... | |
 | Henrik Ibsen - 1958 - Страниц: 380
...of their acceptance there is no question. Here at last Ibsen speaks clearly with Wordsworth's voice: 'Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face.' Their solution has not the sanity of Rita's and Alfred's, nor the radiance of Peer's and Solveig's,... | |
 | Joan Bennett - Страниц: 168
...prescriptions of that 'Stern Daughter of the voice of God' whom men call Duty: 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... | |
 | Louis Jacobs - 1987 - Страниц: 166
...custom reminds one of William Wordsworth's lines in his "Ode to Duty': 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 on thy footing treads. "A custom developed by... | |
 | David P. Haney - 2010 - Страниц: 289
...expressing his grace the way a smile represents a person's disposition: 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. (49-52, in Poems, in Two Volumes 107) The following statement by the Wanderer exhibits both views of... | |
 | Martha Woodmansee, Peter Jaszi - 1994 - Страниц: 482
...of moral speech. At issue is the following stanza of the Ode to Duty : 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - Страниц: 628
...I prize No farther than they breed a second Will more wise.] Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear 50 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... | |
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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... 
