 STERN Daughter of the Voice of God! O 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...  Essays and Poems by Frances Mary Owen - Page 161by Frances Mary Owen - 1887 - 252 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Philip Tappan - 1857 - 650 pages
...excitements of the sensitivity, without consulting every moment the awful oracle of reason. " There arc who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who, in love...reproach or blot ; Who do thy work and know it not." WoidsworlKt Ode to Duty. Now, when the sensitivity becomes corrupted and answers no more to reason... | |
 | 1862 - 796 pages
...and unsophisticated, will be the certainly of the response to a teacher of simple faith: " There arc who ask not if thine eye Be on them, — who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Cpon the genial sense of youth. " And blest are they who in the main This faith even now do entertaiu,... | |
 | 1858 - 460 pages
...! O 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,...reproach or blot ; Who do thy work and know it not ; Long may the kindly impulse last ! But thou, if they should totter, teach them to stand fast! Serene... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...O 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...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... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...terrors overawe ; Prom vain temptation dost set free ; And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity I There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who,...reproach or blot ; Who do thy work, and know it not : .O, if through confidence misplaced They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power, around them cast ! Serene... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1858 - 550 pages
...O Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a li^ht to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove j Thou who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe...free ; And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity 1 There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely... | |
 | George Edward Lynch Cotton (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1858 - 218 pages
...only, which can enable us to realise such language as that in which Wordsworth addresses Duty: — u There are. who ask not if thine eye Be on them : who in lore and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth: Glad hearts, without reproach... | |
 | Joseph (the patriarch.) - 1859 - 108 pages
...Duty I 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...free, And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity. " " Be sure your sins will find you out," is the fixed decree of God ; and in the case of Joseph's... | |
 | Anne Manning - 1859 - 414 pages
...Oh 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,...free, And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity. WORD8WORTH : Ode to Duty. T CAN understand how a dog feels having -•- his collar put on, after coming... | |
 | Man - 1859 - 298 pages
...0 Duty \ If that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To cheek the erring, and reprove ; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe...free, And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity. Stern Lawgiver 1 yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace, Nor know we anything so fair... | |
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