 ON HIS 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 useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account,...  The Household Book of Poetry - Page 742edited by - 1882 - 862 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Education - 1923 - 718 pages
...He is stunned by the calamity for a time and then he rises above it and writes the sonnet on his own blindness : "When I consider how my light is spent...account, lest He returning chide — Doth God exact day-labour, light denied? I fondly ask: — But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies ; God... | |
 | James Martin (of the Wedgwood inst, Burslem) - 1880 - 232 pages
...lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth. S/iakspeare (1564 — 1616). ON HIS OWN BLINDNESS. When I consider how my light is spent Ere...account, lest He, returning, chide; " Doth God exact day labour, light denied (" That murmur, soon replies—" God doth not need Either man's work, or His... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...me through the world's vain mask, Content though blind, had I no better guide. JOHS MILTOS. SONNET I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...to thee wo owe Therefore on thy firm hand Religion leans In peace, and reckons thee her eldest son. of tho gloomy days, Of all the unhealthy and o'erdarkened ways Made for our searching: yes, I fondly ask: but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need Either man's work... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - American poetry - 1881 - 348 pages
...to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all. H. Wotton. 156' ON HIS BLINDNESS. When I consider how my light is...chide, — Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ? I fondly ask: — But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies ; God doth not need Either man's... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1880 - 1108 pages
...homely way, Bravely, firmly, humbly trod, Man can best prepare for God. 1879. ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY. ike show L I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, '• God doth not Bear his mild... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...and the repeated air Of sad Electra's poetf had the power To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare. 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 : —... | |
 | Alfred Macleod - 1881 - 316 pages
...boys ! If in keeping the feast You want a great song for your Italy free, Let none look at me 1 MILTON 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, " God... | |
 | Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 pages
...Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves, whose gospel is their maw. J. Milton. 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, ' God... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - English poetry - 1883 - 326 pages
...the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learned thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian...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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