 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 Pageant of English Poetry - Էջ 317Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 606 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 էջ
...from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learn'd thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. XIX. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...account, lest he, returning, chide ; " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?" I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
 | 1822 - 592 էջ
...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...light 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 his... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 էջ
...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...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 Bearhismild... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1823 - 470 էջ
...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...light 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 his... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 էջ
...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...light 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 his... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 էջ
...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...light 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 his... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 էջ
...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...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 Jiear his... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 էջ
...mild ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...account, lest he returning chide: "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?" I fondly ask: but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, "God doth... | |
 | 1837 - 684 էջ
...unavoidable misfortunes of existence. What deep and serene contentment breathes in this sonnet upon his blindness : When I consider how my light is spent...returning chide; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied V I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's... | |
 | 1837 - 682 էջ
...unavoidable misfortunes of existence. What eep and serene contentment breathes in this sonnet upon his blindness : When I consider how my light is spent...chide ; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied 1" I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's... | |
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