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... Poetry for Home and School - Page 243by Anna Callender Brackett - 1881 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
| Andrews Norton - Periodicals - 1813 - 424 pages
...blindness. , *V HEN 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,...Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chido; Doth God exact day-labor, light denied, I fondly ask: But patience to prevent That murmur soon... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 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...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... | |
| 1822 - 600 pages
...Almighty. " 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...account, lest he returning chide ; Doth God exact day -labour, light denied, I fondly ask > But patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth... | |
| 1822 - 592 pages
...Almighty. " When t 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...account, lest he returning chide ; Doth God exact day-labour, light denied, I fondly ask ? But patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...ISHntmess. 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...account, lest he, returning, chide, ' Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?' I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, ' God... | |
| New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...ISUnBiusa. 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...account, lest he, returning, chide, ' Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?' I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, ' God... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 406 pages
...MmtfntsS. 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 he, retarning, chide, ' Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?' I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 pages
...Almighty. " 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...account, lest he returning chide ; Doth God exact day-labour, light denied, I fondly ask : But patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 pages
...Almighty. " 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...account, lest he returning chide ; Doth God exact day-labour, light denied, I fondly ask: But patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...I consider how my/life 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...account, lest he returning, chide ; Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ? * I fondly ask : But patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God... | |
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