 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...  Life and Times of John Milton - Page 197by William Carlos Martyn - 1866 - 307 pagesFull view - About this book
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1870 - 416 pages
...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, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, }est he returning, chide ; "Doth God... | |
 | 1870
...for usefulness ne ends. Milton well expresses his thought that sublime sonnet which he wrote his own blindness : " When I consider how my life is spent. Ere half my days, in this dark world and л And that one talenl which ie death to hide. Lodged with me useless, though my... | |
 | David Masson - English literature - 1877 - 730 pages
...— (1) When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days iu this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless,...Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning, elude, " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ? " I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my d.iys, in this dark world and wide, And that The weak brain may serve to amaze ; But to the reins...impart. Brother of Bacchus, later born ! The old wor lie returning chide ; "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" . I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent... | |
 | Robert Jones Griffiths - Arithmetic - 1872 - 130 pages
...BLINDNESS. " 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...therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest the returning chide ; 'Doth God exact day labour, light deny'd ?' I faintly ask ; but Patience, to... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...BLINDNESS. WHW I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that ereon it f;tlls Transfigured stand in marble trance 1 JOHN CHBBNLHAF WHITTOK. 3 bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present ily true account, lest he returning chide ; "Doth God... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 678 pages
...consider how my Ijght Is spent Ere hal£ my day 9, in tljfs dark world, and wide, Andythat(qne talenil 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, chide j, " Doth... | |
 | David Thomas - Bible - 1873 - 624 pages
...his sightless condition, did not fail to recognise some of the advantages of his sad deprivation. " When I consider how my life is spent Ere half my days, in 1/- in dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, thongb... | |
 | F. Peel - English language - 1874 - 144 pages
...VIII. 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...present My true account, lest he, returning, chide ; " l)oth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly ask ; but Patience, to prevent That murmur,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 584 pages
...my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide. And that one talent which Is denth to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more...present My true account, lest he returning chide; "Doth (;ixl exact day-labor, light denied?" I fondly ask: But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon... | |
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