 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
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...an {jis 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, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present u 162 THE PET NAME. My true account, lest he returning... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1861 - 534 pages
...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 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... | |
 | John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - 548 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare. J. Milton 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... | |
 | Masson - Poetry - 1995 - 228 pages
...the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices, something understood. GEORGE HERBERT 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 God... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...reckoning : 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, chide . . .... | |
 | Antoinette Line - Drama - 1997 - 70 pages
...Follow up reading 'A voyage Round my Father' by John Mortimer 'From Cornea! Graft' by Anne Ridler 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... | |
 | Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 302 pages
...form: 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 chide; "Doth... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 2000 - 514 pages
...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 useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide "Doth God... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...[1648] 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 chide; "Doth... | |
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