 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
 | Readers - 1890 - 274 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, useless, though my soul were bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide. " Doth... | |
 | Arizona. Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction - Education - 1890 - 508 pages
...silly that we were afraid. (d) I expect that he has gone to Boston. (e) 1 wish I was in Dixie. II. When I consider. how my life is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide. And that one dark talent which is death to hide. Lodged with me useless,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1890 - 482 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 useless, though my sou) more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and preson t My true account, lest he returning chide ;... | |
 | Sir Theodore Andrea Cook, Theodore Andrea Cook - Mathematics - 1979 - 532 pages
...: — " 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 Logs to Base 10. Numbsrs. On Left. AtT. On Right. On Left. AtT. On Right. $' and qP •ooo •104... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...reckoning : 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,...present My true account, lest He, returning, chide . . . 'That one talent' can hardly mean mere ability to write in prose or verse, nor can it mean ability... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...16 When I consider how my light is spent,0 Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,0 And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me...maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide,0 Doth God exact day-labour, light denied,0 I fondly ask; but patience to prevent0 That murmur,... | |
 | Erik Kolbell - Religion - 2004 - 186 pages
...his sight steadily for about ten years, had been totally blind for about three years when he wrote: When I consider how my life is spent ere half my days,...hide, lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent to serve therewith my Maker . . .2 The poem wasn'ta big hit with the church. This kind of questioning... | |
 | Martyn Lloyd-Jones - Religion - 2005 - 178 pages
...years are passing, and we have not done what we proposed to do. As Milton put it in his great sonnet, When I consider how my life is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide. He felt that he had wasted his life; he had not done the things he had intended,... | |
 | John Van de Ruit - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2007 - 364 pages
...written: 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,...and present My true account, lest He returning chide . . . "On his blindness" Happy birthday, The Guv I've always struggled to understand the hidden meanings... | |
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