Journal April 1839
p65“Ode to Duty_ Wordsworth_ / Stern Daughter of the voice of God, / Oh Duty!”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal April 1839." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (Box A); Box 5 (99).
WorkWilliam Wordsworth
"Ode to Duty" (composed 1805; published in Poems in Two Volumes, 1807)
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) · composed 1805; published in Poems in Two Volumes, 1807
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“Ode to Duty_ Wordsworth_ / Stern Daughter of the voice of God, / Oh Duty!”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal April 1839." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (Box A); Box 5 (99).
“Wordsworth moves us when he writes an "Ode to Duty," or "Dion," because he could also write "Ruth," and the exquisitely tender poems on Matthew, in "— whom nature for a favorite child / Had tempered so the clay, / That every hour the heart ran wild, / Yet never went astray.”
Also reprinted in Papers on Literature and Art. Counted once, at its first appearance.
Fuller, Margaret. "Miss Barrett’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 January 1845. · 4 January 1845
“Wordsworth moves us when he writes an " Ode to Duty," or " Dion," because he cculd also write " Ruth," and the exquisitely tender poems on Matthew, in whom nature”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p200
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p200; page given is to the 1869 reprint.