 | Gems - 1871 - 280 pages
...feel the weight of 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...fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; O let my weakness have an end ! Give... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1871 - 622 pages
...feel the weight of 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...fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh ! let my weakness have an end... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Authors - 1871 - 350 pages
...the level of his meditations, throughout his poetry. Take the following, from the "Ode to Duty": — Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...wrong ; And the most ancient heavens through thee arefreih arid strong. In a descriptive poem called " The Gypsies," there is a very striking instance... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...quietness of thought : Me this unchartered freedom tires ;. • I I feel the weight of chance-desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for...fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful power ! i call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; Oh, let my weakness have an end... | |
 | James Chandler - Poetry - 1984 - 338 pages
...invariable conformity to moral law just as the activity of flowers and stars conforms to natural law: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance...fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power! I call thee: I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour; Oh, let my weakness have an end! Give... | |
 | Louis Jacobs - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1987 - 166 pages
...not an unpleasant burden. This custom reminds one of William Wordsworth's lines in his "Ode to Duty': Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most...Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance on thy footing treads. "A custom developed by the mystics of the sixteenth century is to stay up all... | |
 | Arts - 1875 - 398 pages
...from duty fulfilled. In his " Ode to Duty " he brings all under her stem but benignant power : — " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance...ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. " Offended conscience, moreover, drew aids from Nature to assert again its injured majesty, a sentiment... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...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...fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power! I call thee: I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour; 60 Oh, let my weakness have an end!... | |
 | Martha Woodmansee, Peter Jaszi - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 482 pages
...intrinsic undecidable causality of moral speech. At issue is the following stanza of the Ode to Duty : Stern lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most...the most ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong.68 "The last two lines," Francis Jeffrey notes, "seem to be utterly without meaning; at least... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Fiction - 1994 - 228 pages
...become, my dear little boy, even though one has to pay a heavy price for the blessing. CHAPTER FIVE Stem Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant...ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. WORDSWORTH But what became of little Tom? He slipped away off the rocks into the water, as I said before.... | |
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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... 
