 | Winifred Taylor - Artists - 1870 - 320 pages
...! O Duty ! if that name thou love, Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove: Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice...confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth Thy bondsman let me live !" —WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. IT was the evening of the fourteenth day after Miss... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Superexlibris - 1871 - 630 pages
...ancien,! heavens, through Thcc, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power! I call thec: I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour...And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live ! i £05. CHARACTER OF THE HA1TY WARRIOR. WHO is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms... | |
 | Gems - 1871 - 280 pages
...humbler functions, awful Power! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour ; O let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly,...And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live. WORDSWORTH. '<Kniiih nf A VOICE from stately Babylon, a mourner's rising cry — And Libya's marble... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1871 - 622 pages
...ancient, heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour...of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; A nd, in the light of truth, thy bondman let. me live . PREFATORY SOHNET. NUNS fret not at their... | |
 | James Chandler - Poetry - 1984 - 338 pages
...ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power! I call thee: I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour;...give; And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live!14 To the extent that the condition described here is realized, the distinction between inner... | |
 | James T. Kloppenberg - Political Science - 1988 - 557 pages
...precisely the blend of elements in Green's own outlook. Its closing lines encapsulate Green's creed: Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice;...And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live! 20. Green to HS Holland, Dec. 29,1868, in Henry Scott Holland, Memoir and Letters, ed. Stephen Paget... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...humbler functions, awful Power! I call thee: I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour; 60 Oh, let my weakness have an end! Give unto me, made...And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live! '/ wandered lonely as a cloud' I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills,... | |
 | Martha Woodmansee, Peter Jaszi - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 482 pages
...ancient Heavens through Thee are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power!0 I call thee: 1 myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour; Oh! let my weakness have an end! 60 Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give; And... | |
 | Michael Caputo - Religion - 2000 - 248 pages
...ANCIENT HEAVENS, THROUGH THEE, ARE FRESH AND STRONG. TO HUMBLER FUNCTIONS, AWFUL POWER! I CALL THEE: I MYSELF COMMEND UNTO THY GUIDANCE FROM THIS HOUR;...WEAKNESS HAVE AN END! GIVE UNTO ME, MADE LOWLY WISE, THY SPIRIT OF SELF SACRIFICE; THE CONFIDENCE OF REASON GIVE; AND IN THE LIGHT OF TRUTH THY BONDMAN... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 pages
...address to the power of duty in the following words : To humbler functions, awful power ! I call thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour...written by Mr. "Wordsworth. — Ed. THE FRIEND, ESSAY T. We can not but look up with reverence to the advanced natures of the naturalists and moralists in... | |
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Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live ! 1805. 
