 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...  Southern Literary Messenger - Page 1301838Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...BLINDNESS. WHEN 1 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, chide; " Doth... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 420 pages
...may grow A hundred fold, who, having learn'd thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. XIX. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere...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, chide ; " Doth... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 pages
...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 spent,...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, chide ; " Doth... | |
 | Spring flowers, S. P. - 1849 - 178 pages
...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 spent Ere...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;... | |
 | 1850 - 300 pages
...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 spent,...death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he return and chide. " Doth... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...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 Ere...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, chide : " Doth... | |
 | Thomas Vincent Fosbery - 1850 - 416 pages
...invade, Beneath His wings' propitious shade. Submitting snnrself tofiollji unto &(s to tfl. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent,...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, chide, —... | |
 | 1850 - 340 pages
...BLINDNESS. WHEN I'Qonsider 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 return and chide. " Doth... | |
 | Christian poets - 1851 - 470 pages
...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...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, chide ; —... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 pages
...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 useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My trne account, lest He, returning, chide ; " Doth... | |
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