 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pagina’s
...consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, I And that one talent3 which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning, chiJe ; " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?" I fondly ask: but Patience, to prevent That murmur,... | |
 | Charlotte Phillips - 1855 - 188 pagina’s
...the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, [Lord! Hath melted like snow in the glance of the MILTON ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere...account, lest He, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ? " I fondly ask: But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, "God... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 pagina’s
...may grow A hundred-fold, who, having learned thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. xrv. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere...account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?" I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | 1855 - 458 pagina’s
...Milton. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless...denied ? " I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts ; who best Bear his... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pagina’s
...Milton. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless...denied ? " I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts ; who best Bear his... | |
 | 1856 - 864 pagina’s
...things invisible to mortal sight." We cannot retrain from quoting also his two exquisite sonnets on his blindness: "When I consider how my light is spent...death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul mor • bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning. chide;—... | |
 | Reading book - 1856 - 352 pagina’s
...consider how my light is spent Ere half my days,* in this dark world and wide, And that one talentt which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd?" I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pagina’s
...BLINDNESS.1 WHEN I consider2 how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me...therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returmng, chide ; — "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly3 ask : but Patience, to prevent... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pagina’s
...consider how my light is spent Kre half my diiys, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent 3 which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...present My true account, lest He, returning, chide j " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied V 1 fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 pagina’s
...And wild? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustomed to immortal fruits V SONNET ON HIS BLINDNESS. When I consider how my light is spent Ero...account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied V I fondly ask: but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
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WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning... 
