 And joy its own security. And they a blissful course may hold Even now, who, not unwisely bold, Live in the spirit of this creed ; Yet seek thy firm support, according to their need. I, loving freedom, and untried ; No sport of every random gust, Yet...  An Excursion Among the Poets - Page 87edited by - 1853 - 360 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frederic William Farrar - English poetry - 1883 - 326 pages
...firm support, according to their need. I, loving freedom, and untried, No sport of every random guest, Yet, being to myself a guide, Too blindly have reposed my trust ; And oft, when in my heart wiis heard Thy timely mandate, I deferred The task, in smoother walks to stray ; But thee I now would... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1884 - 654 pages
...unwisely bold, Live in the spirit of this creed ; Yet seek thy firm support, according to their necl I, loving freedom, and untried ; No sport of every...mandate, I deferred The task, in smoother walks to stray ; Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control... | |
 | Edmund Arthur Helps - 1884 - 360 pages
...bold, Live in the spirit of this creed ; Yet find that other strength, according to their need. 25 I, loving freedom, and untried ; No sport of every...reposed my trust : And oft, when in my heart was heard 30 Thy timely mandate, I deferred The task, in smoother walks to stray ; Through no disturbance of... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - Devotional calendars - 1884 - 402 pages
...walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. — JER. vii. 23. AND oft, when in my heart was heard Thy timely mandate,...But thee I now would serve more strictly, if I may. W. WORDSWORTH. TDRAY Him to give you what Scripture calls A " an honest and good heart," or " a perfect... | |
 | James Chandler - Poetry - 1984 - 338 pages
...maturity derives from the thumbnail autobiography which the speaker of the "Ode" provides midway along: I, loving freedom, and untried; No sport of every...But thee I now would serve more strictly, if I may. These lines do bear an important relation to "Tintern Abbey" and The Prelude, but not the one that... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...unwisely bold, Live in the spirit of this creed; Yet seek thy firm support, according to their need. I, loving freedom, and untried; No sport of every...reposed my trust: And oft, when in my heart was heard 30 Thy timely mandate, I deferred The task, in smoother walks to stray; But thee I now would serve... | |
 | Martha Woodmansee, Peter Jaszi - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 482 pages
...entertain: Live in the spirit of this creed; Yet find that other strength, according to their need. I, loving freedom, and untried; No sport of every...myself a guide, Too blindly have reposed my trust: Resolved that nothing e'er should press Upon my present happiness, 30 1 shoved unwelcome tasks away;... | |
 | Simon Jarvis - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 300 pages
...as the eventual emergence of a sincere disinterestedness, but as in its turn a new form of desire: Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction 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... | |
 | Stephen Gill - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 417 pages
...whole story of history has been folded into passages of utterly lyric peace. Repose is come again. From no disturbance of my soul Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy controul; But in the quietness of thought: Me this perpetual freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance... | |
 | Adam Sisman - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 540 pages
...perhaps sent south to Coleridge before he left the country,85 could be read as a pledge to his friend: And oft, when in my heart was heard Thy timely mandate,...But thee I now would serve more strictly, if I may. On 14 January 1804 Coleridge set out from Grasmere, walking the nineteen miles to Kendal in only four... | |
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