 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 ! if through confidence misplaced They fail,...  Poems, in Two Volumes, - Page 71by William Wordsworth - 1807 - 170 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1872 - 692 pages
...our useless lamentations and set about doing it. There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon...thou, if they should totter, teach them to stand fast. The poet here refers to children who do their duty in obeying their parents, and being cheerful and... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...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 Upon...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... | |
 | Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, George Dawes Hicks, George Stephens Spinks, Lancelot Austin Garrard - 1923 - 1008 pages
...Wordsworth drew for us in the " Ode to Duty " : 436 " There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon...reproach or blot ; Who do thy work and know it not." But such are rare ; or, should we say, that their type of mind, though not uncommon in the earlier... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pages
...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 Upon...reproach or blot; Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh! if through confidence misplaced They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power! around them cast. Serene... | |
 | Mary Shelley - 1997 - 566 pages
...self-restraint, before we can reach the highest kind of excellence. If simplicity is the best,— if those, "Who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon...reproach or blot, Who do thy work and know it not," — " and if the works which are the type of this artless celestial nature hold the first rank, yet... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 1999 - 276 pages
...altogether in abeyance: as Wordsworth says There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them: who in simple truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial...Glad hearts, without reproach or blot, Who do thy will and know it not, O if through confidence misplaced They fail, thy saving arms dread power around... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 2000 - 788 pages
...despair; a glorious ministry. There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, I0 Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense...Thou, if they should totter, teach them to stand fast! And unto this he frames his song: Then will he fit his tongue To dialogues of business, love, or strife;... | |
 | Kenneth Haynes - 2003 - 225 pages
...Wordsworth's 'Ode to Duty' is a return to the plain style: There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon...reproach or blot; Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh! If through confidence misplaced They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power! around them cast. Like... | |
 | John S. Mackenzie - 2005 - 493 pages
...expressed by Wordsworth in his Ode to Duly—' " 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 I without repronch or blot ; Who do thy work, and know it not** i We shall see later (chap, vi.) that... | |
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