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 - Página 377por Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 882 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 páginas
...that from these may grow A hundred-fold, who having learned thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian wo. 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... | |
| 1856 - 666 páginas
...submission and endurance. In either, or both ways, he solemnly resolves faithfully to adhere to duty. OS HIS BLINDNESS. " When I consider how my light is spent,...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 : '... | |
| Spring flowers, S. P. - 1849 - 178 páginas
...many a thousand actions once afoot, End in one purpose, and be all well borne Without defeat. SONNET ON HIS BLINDNESS. When I consider how my light is...which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though iny soul more bent To serve wherewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning, elude;... | |
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 páginas
...certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now. I'll speak to her, And she shall be my queen. SONNETS. ON HIS BLINDNESS When I consider how my light is spent...account, lest he, returning, chide : " Doth God exact day-lab'nnr, light denied ?" I fondly ask : but Patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, ' God... | |
| Thomas Vincent Fosbery - 1850 - 416 páginas
...can me invade, Beneath His wings' propitious shade. Submitting snnrself tofiollji unto &(s to tfl. 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 —... | |
| 1850 - 300 páginas
...all ; Rolls the swift planets in their spheres, And counts the sinner's lonely tears. MILTON'S SONNET ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is...therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he return and chide. " Doth God exact day -labor, light denied ? " I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent... | |
| Christian poets - 1851 - 470 páginas
...Judge ; who thenceforth bade thee rest, And drink thy fill of pure immortal streams. ' ON THE AUTHOR S 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, —... | |
| Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 páginas
...BLINDNESS. WHEN 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...returning chide; " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied J " I fondly ask; but patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's... | |
| David Thomas - 674 páginas
...deprivation. " When 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...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... | |
| Cottage verse, Joseph Jones - 1852 - 296 páginas
...(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...account, lest He, returning, chide ; "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly ask : — but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, "... | |
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