 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...  Selected Poems - Pagina 312di Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1894Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 pagine
...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 useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide ; Doth God exact... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pagine
...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 true account, lest he returning, chide ; Doth God... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagine
...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...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... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 422 pagine
...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 true account, lest he, returning chide, ' Doth God... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - 1833 - 240 pagine
...from these may grow A hundred fold, who, having learn'd thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. JOHN MILTON. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my (lays, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd... | |
 | 1837 - 684 pagine
...unavoidable misfortunes of existence. What deep and serene contentment breathes in this sonnet upon his blindness : When I consider how my light is spent...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pagine
...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...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... | |
 | 1836 - 424 pagine
...•'• 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 ; '• •... | |
 | 1838 - 870 pagine
...a decided exception. And I shall transcribe one of the great poet's Sonnets to bear me out. "ON MY BLINDNESS. " When I consider how my light is spent...death to hide, Lodged with me, useless, though my soul were bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide : ' Doth... | |
 | 1838 - 822 pagine
...consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one lalent, which is death to hide, Lodged with me, useless, though my soul were bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide : ' Doth... | |
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