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... Afternoons with the Poets - Page 164by Charles Dunham Deshler - 1879 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my .soul more , beat To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?" I fondly ask: But Patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide; " Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?" I fondly ask: But Patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
| Andrews Norton - Periodicals - 1813 - 424 pages
...blindness. , *V HEN 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,...Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chido; Doth God exact day-labor, light denied, I fondly ask: But patience to prevent That murmur soon... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...talent which is death to bide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide, ' Doth God exact day-labour, light denied i' I fondly ask : but, Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, ' God... | |
| 1822 - 600 pages
...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... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...BLINDNESS. 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-labor, light denied ?" I fondly ask : But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God... | |
| 1822 - 592 pages
...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...account, lest he returning chide ; Doth God exact day-labour, light denied, I fondly ask ? But patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 pages
...Almighty. " When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark worm 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, ana present My true account, lest he returning chide ; Doth God exact... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...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...account, lest he, returning, chide, ' Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?' I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, ' God... | |
| New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...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...account, lest he, returning, chide, ' Doth God exact day-labour, light denied ?' I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, ' God... | |
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