 | 1911 - 592 pages
...verse is best given by the beginning of ' Duty ' : ' Stern daughter of the voice of God ! 0 Duty ! If that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod...; And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity.' The differences between Gray's and Wordsworth's lines ought to be at once apparent. Gray never wholly... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...Lucy's eyes survey'd ! TOL. I. 'Oil 69 ODE TO DUTY. Stern Daughter of the Voice of God ! O Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a Light to guide, a Rod...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,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...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, a Rod...free ; And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity ! There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...great Above all human estimate. XXV. ODE TO DUTY. STERN Daughter of the Voice of God ! O Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a Light to guide, a Rod V To check the erring, and reprove ; Thou who art victory and law ' When empty terrors overawe ; From... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - English fiction - 1822 - 308 pages
...MERCHANT'S SON. " My gentler rest is on a thought, Conscious of doing what I ought." Andrew Marvell. " Stern Law-giver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace, Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flow'rs laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - English fiction - 1822 - 310 pages
...MERCHANT'S SON. " My gentler rtst is on a thought; Conscious of doing what I ought." Jlndrea Marvell. " Stern Law-giver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace. Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flow'rs laugh before thee on their beds. And fragrance... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...own far-off murmurs listening. XXXV. ODE TO DUTY. STERN Daughter of the Voice of God ! O Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a Light to guide, a Rod...free ; And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity ! There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...feeling, great Above all human estimate. ODE TO DUTY. STERN Daughter of the Voice of God ! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a Light to guide, a Rod...overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free; And calmstthe weary strife of frail humanity! There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who, in love... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...listening. ODE TO DUTY. Daughter of the Voice of God ! 'I'uiy' if that name thou love, ' Wbo art a Light lo guide, a Rod • To check the erring, and reprove...who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe; • FfWD vain temptations dost set free; And calm'sl the weary strife of frail humanity! There are... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1829 - 930 pages
...of one who, in his address to Duty, shews that he has obeyed her call, and received her rewards. " Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thce on their beds, And fragrance... | |
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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... 
