 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...terrors overawe; From vain temptations dost set free; From strife and from despair; a glorious ministry. There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who,...reproach or blot; Who do thy work, and know it not: May joy be theirs while life shall last ! And Thou, if they should totter, teach them to stand fast!... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...strife and from despair; a glorious ministry. There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; wh<>, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon...reproach or blot; Who do thy work, and know it not : May joy be theirs while life shall last! And Thou, if they should totter, teach them to stand fast... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...feeling, great Above all human estimate. 153 XXV. ODE TO DUTY. STEBN Daughter of the Voice of God ! O Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a Light to guide,...reproach or blot ; Who do thy work, and know it not : May joy be theirs while life shall last ! And Thou, if they should totter, teach them to stand fast... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...; Thou who art victory and law ' When empty terrors overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free J And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity ! There...reproach or blot ; Who do thy work, and know it not : May joy be theirs while life shall last ! And Thou, if they should totter, teach them to stand fast... | |
 | 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
...art victory and law When empty terrors overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free; And calmstthe weary strife of frail humanity! There are who ask...reproach or blot; Who do thy work, and know it not: May joy be theirs while life shall last ! And Tli mi, if they should totter, teach them to stand fast... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 378 pages
...overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free ; From strife and from despair ; a glorious ministry. There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who,...reproach or blot ; Who do thy work, and know it not : May joy be theirs while life shall last ! [fast! And Thou, if they should totter, teach them to stand... | |
 | 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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Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove ; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free ; And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity ! There are... 
