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 - Pàgina 317per Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 606 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Charlotte Phillips - 1855 - 188 pàgines
...might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, [Lord! Hath melted like snow in the glance of the MILTON ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...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... | |
| English poetry - 1857 - 334 pàgines
...these may grow A hundred fold, who, having learned thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. HI. — ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...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... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 pàgines
...obscure And wild? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustomed to immortal fruits V SONNET ON HIS BLINDNESS. When I consider how my light is...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... | |
| James Hamilton - 1857 - 494 pàgines
...i3Imtme$». 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 ; whft best Bear... | |
| Thomas Vincent Fosbery - 1857 - 436 pàgines
...BLINDNESS. MILTON. 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_besi. Bear... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pàgines
...HILTON. 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,...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... | |
| James Hamilton - 1859 - 444 pàgines
...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 Bear His... | |
| England - 1860 - 532 pàgines
...happiest of the happy ; AVhen a spring-lock, that lay in ambush there, Fastened her down for ever ! ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...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... | |
| 1860 - 304 pàgines
...CXXXVI. WHEN I consider how ray 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... | |
| John Milton - 1861 - 534 pàgines
...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...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... | |
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