 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 Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song - Page 377by Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 882 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1861 - 534 pages
...O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple tyrant ; that from these may grow XIX. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ? " I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - 548 pages
...O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple tyrant ; that from these may grow XIX. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth G-od exact day-labour, light denied ? " I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies,-" God... | |
 | Selections - 1862 - 348 pages
...these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learned thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. MILTON. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...account, lest He, returning, chide. " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, — "... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 pages
...grow A hundred fold, who having learn'd thy way Early may fly the Babylonian woe. — Milton. ON Hid BLINDNESS. When I consider how my light is spent Ere...account, lest he returning chide ; "Doth God exact day labour, light denied?" I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...BLINDNESS. WHEW 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... | |
 | William George T. Barter - 1863 - 302 pages
...and he could write that also. Where does religion more purely breathe than in that affecting sonnet on his blindness ? — When I consider how my light...account, lest He, returning, chide ; Doth God exact day-labour, liglit denied ? I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies : —... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...consider how my light is spent Kre half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent 3 which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though...light denied?" I fondly ask: but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth nov need Either man's work, or his own gifts; who best 1 " Few... | |
 | Karl Johann Philipp Spitta - Christian poetry, German - 1863 - 332 pages
...BLINDNESS. !|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,...account, lest He, returning, chide — " Doth God exact day-labour light denied ? " I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies — God... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...from these may grow A hundred fold, who, having learned thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...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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