 There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!  Poems,: In Two Volumes, - Page 73by William Wordsworth - 1807Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...terrors overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free ; And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity ! There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who,...they should totter, teach them to stand fast ! Serene %vill be our days and bright, And happy will our nature be, When love is an unerring light, And joy... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...terrors overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free J And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity ! There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who,...Thou, if they should totter, teach them to stand fast .l Serene will be our days and bright, And happy will our nature be, When love is an unerring light,... | |
 | Decoration and ornament - 1825
...man. Like his other tales, the predominant characters are all good and amiable ; they are of those " Who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who, in love and trnth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Blest hearts ! without reproach... | |
 | Charles Knight - English fiction - 1823 - 548 pages
...the voice of nature. They belong to the class of beings described by the poet, in his Ode to Duty : " There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who,...misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth ; Blest hearts ! without reproach or blot! Who do thy will, and know it not ! " . . It never occurs... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...terrors overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free; And calmstthe weary strife of frail humanity! ears, Health shall prolong to many a festive hour...while the lovely babe unconscious lies, Smiles on Tli mi, if they should totter, teach them to stand fast ! Serene will be our days and bright, And happy... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...them; who, in love aud truth. * bere no misgiving is, rely I'poo the genial sense of youth: '•lid Hearts! without reproach or blot; , Who do thy work, and know it not: Long may the kindly impulse last! lint Thou, if they should totter, teach them to Hand fait ! Serene... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 378 pages
...night, For all her sorrows, all her tears, An over-payment of delight ? ODE TO DUTY. [WORDSWORTH.] STERN daughter of the voice of God ! O Duty ! if that...know it not : May joy be theirs while life shall last ! [fast! And Thou, if they should totter, teach them to stand Serene will be our days and bright, And... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 858 pages
...overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free ; From strife and from despair ; a glorioui mmistry. There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who,...sense of youth : Glad hearts! without reproach or hlot ; Who do th* -fork, and know it not : May joy he theirs while life shall last ! [fasti And Thou,... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 864 pages
...impulses scarcely need either direction or control, and to whom it is given to be thoughtlessly good : ' There are who ask not if Thine eye Be on them ; who,...reproach or blot ; Who do thy work and know it not.' It is seldom, indeed, that the duties of life can be gone through with so loose a rein ; and when an... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 596 pages
...impulses scarcely need either direction or control, and to whom it is given to be thoughtlessly good : ' There are who ask not if Thine eye Be on them ; who,...of youth : Glad hearts ! without reproach or blot; AYho do thy work and know it not.' It is seldom, indeed, that the duties of life can be gone through... | |
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