 ON HIS 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,...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 612by John Milton - 1842 - 767 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...these may grow A hundred fold, who, having learned thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. III. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?" I fondly ask: but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1844 - 846 pages
...BLINDNESS. WHBM 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 Tu serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide ; ' Doth God... | |
 | 1844 - 616 pages
...talent which ia death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewilh my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide; Doth God exact d ly-labor, light denied 1 1 fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soun replies, ' God... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...and wide, To serve therewith my Maker, and present Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent My true account, lest he, returning, chide; ' Doth God exact day-labour, light denied V That murmur, soon replies, ' God doth not need I fondly ask; but Patience, to prevent Either man's... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...denied?" I fondly 3 ask : but Patience, to prevent 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 That murmur, soon replies;—" God doth not need Either man's work, or his own gifts; who best... | |
 | Child rearing - 1846 - 332 pages
...WHEN I consider how long 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 hent, To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he return and chide; ' Doth God... | |
 | Robert Dick - 1846 - 168 pages
...which is death to hide Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my master and 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 replies: God cloth not need Either man's... | |
 | John Milton - 1846 - 638 pages
...half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodtred with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present 5 Mv true account, lest he returning chide; 'Doth God exact dav-labour, lilht deny'd?' I fondly ask... | |
 | Gleanings - 1847 - 136 pages
...triumphant flight be shewn, The truest index on its face Points to the church-yard stone. 86 MILTON'S SONNET ON HIS BLINDNESS. When I consider how my light is...Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, ch'.de. " Doth (iod exact day-labour, light denied f I fondly ask : but Patience to prevent That murmur,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...streams. 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...returning chide; Doth God exact day-labour, light denied, I fondly ask: but patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need Either man's work... | |
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