Stronger than thunder's winged force
All-powerful gold can speed its course;
Through watchful guards its passage make,
And loves through solid walls do break. [ Francis ]

The watchful mother tarries nigh,
Though sleep has clos'd her infant's eye. [ Keble ]

Nature's loving proxy, the watchful mother. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Zeal and duty ... on occasion's forelock watchful wait. [ Milton ]

There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes
Can trace it 'midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

Zeal and duty are not slow; But on occasion's forelock watchful wait. [ Milton ]

Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [ Horace ]

Nothing can check his watchful daring. For him the summer has no heat, the winter no ice. [ Boileau of Louis XIV ]

O, polished perturbation! golden care that keepest the ports of slumber open wide to many a watchful night! [ William Shakespeare ]

True repentance has a double aspect; it looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye. [ South ]