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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... "
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Page 498
by William Wordsworth - 1856 - 539 pages
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54

Scotland - 1843 - 1380 pages
...they knew how to use — " Me this uncharter'd freedom tires ; I feel the weight of chance desires ; My hopes no more must change their name — I long for a repose that ever is the same. " And if it seem strange to any one that Frederick Schlegel, the learned, the profound, the comprehensive,...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 47

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1887 - 490 pages
...the stars from wrong," as keeping the heavens themselves fresh and strong by its inspiring might. " 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...
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The Poems of William Wordsworth ...

William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...I now would serve more strictly, if I may. Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control ; But...that ever is the same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy'face :...
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...I now would serve more strictly, if I may. Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control ; But in the quietness of thought: Me this uncharter'd freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance-desires : My hopes no more must change their...
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Poetry for Home and School ...

1846 - 436 pages
...I now would serve more strictly, if I may. Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control ; But...this unchartered freedom tires ; I feel the weight of chance desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same....
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The Poets and Poetry of England: In the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...I now would serve more strictly, if I may. Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control ; But in the quietness of thought: Me this uncharter'd freedom tires ; I feel the weight of chance-desires : My hopes no more must change their...
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From Oxford to Rome: And how it Feared with Some who Lately Made the Journey

Elizabeth Furlong Shipton Harris, Companion traveller - Anglo-Catholicism in literature - 1847 - 340 pages
...Wordsworth's, which runs, — Me this unchartered freedom tires, I feel the weight of now desires ; My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose which ever is the same. Again, to another friend on the same date — Regarding sensible mortification,...
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The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Late Poet Laureate

William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...would serve more strictly, if I may. Through no disturbance of my soul, '"N. pi Or strong compunction ral heart of human kind Hope sprang <•.•», ih...watch-tower of man's absolule self, With light unwaning on *• '' t See Note. c Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost_wear The Godhead's most Awrfignaiyt grace ; . t...
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Sketches of English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Present Century

Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 pages
...in me wrought, I supplicate for thy controul ; But in the quietness of thought : Me this uncharter'd freedom tires ; I feel the weight of chance-desires...no more must change their name, I long for a repose which ever is the same. " Yet not the less would I throughout Still act according to the voice Of my...
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The Autobiography of William Jerdan: With His Literary, Political ..., Volume 2

William Jerdan - 1852 - 438 pages
...humble servant, "W. WORDSWORTH." Here follows a specimen of this gentleman's writing — " Great ' Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The godhead's most benignant grace, Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile ' on George's face. " ' Flowers laugh before ' him ' on their beds,...
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