 | 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... | |
 | 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 ;... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1891 - 616 pages
...much is required." Milton felt this when, in his blind agony, his poetic soul cried, — "And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me...present My true account, lest he, returning, chide." In Milton we have an example of talent first and unmistakable. The strong will laughed at blindness,... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 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 more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account,1 lest he returning chide, — Doth God... | |
 | John Milton - English Literature - 1892 - 654 pages
...the Babylonian woe. XIX. [ON HIS BLINDNESS.] 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 \ VvV' To serve therewith my Maker, and present i\- My true account, lest He returning... | |
 | 1876 - 588 pages
...resignation. " 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...My true account, lest he returning chide; 'Doth God eract day-labor, light denied?' I fondly ask: But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, '... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1894 - 348 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 more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present 5 My true account, lest He, returning chide ; " Doth... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1894 - 488 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 more bent To serva therewith my Maker, and present 5 My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God... | |
 | Frank Townsend Southwick - Elocution - 1894 - 266 pages
...Shakespeare. 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... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 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 JMy true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth 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... 
