 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,...  A Book of British and American Verse - Side 202redigeret af - 1922 - 1908 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1823 - 470 sider
...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... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 sider
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 sider
...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 - 682 sider
...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... | |
 | 1837 - 684 sider
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 sider
...him. These sonnets show that his right hand had lost none of its cunning, and may be introduced here. ON HIS BLINDNESS When I consider how my light is spent...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... | |
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