 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...  The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine - Page 2351864Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 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...present My true account, lest He, returning, chide ; "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied1?" I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur,... | |
 | John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 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...present My true account, lest He, returning, chide ; "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied V I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon... | |
 | H. C. Foster - English poetry - 1853 - 378 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...and present My true account, lest He returning chide ; " Doth God exact day -labor, light denied? " I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 pages
...consider how mv light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent wlu'ch is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my...present My true account, lest He returning chide; '• Doth CJod exact day-labour, light denied/' I fondly ask ? but Patience to prevent Thai murmur,... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 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...present My true account, lest he returning chide), " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ? " I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...iv. 18. 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; "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly ask: but patience, to prevent That murmur, soon... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 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...present My true account, lest he, returning, chide : " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?" I fondly ask : but Patience to prevent That murmur,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Religious poetry, English - 1854 - 374 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...and present My true account, lest He returning chide ; " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied? " I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 1232 pages
...Almighty. " When I consider how mj 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; Doth God exact day-labor, light denied, I fondly ask : But patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...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,... | |
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