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" 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... "
A Hand-book of English and American Literature: Historical and Critical ... - Page 148
by Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 518 pages
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Sabbath Recreations: Or, Select Poetry of a Religious Kind

Emily Taylor - 1839 - 306 pages
...BLINDNESS. WHIN 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...therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he return and chide. "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ? " I fondly ask: But Patience, to prevent...
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Literary Leaves, Volume 2

David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 364 pages
...these may grow A hundred fold, who, having learned the way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere...account, lest he, returning chide ; " Doth God exact clay-labour, light denied ?" I fondly ask : but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God...
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Literary Leaves; Or, Prose and Verse Chiefly Written in India, Volume 2

David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 370 pages
...these may grow A hundred fold, who, having learned the way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere...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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The Christian's Book of Gems: A Selection of Sacred Poetry

Christian - 1840 - 312 pages
...Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor : And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away. ON HIS 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 doth...
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The Christian's Book of Gems: A Selection of Sacred Poetry

Christian - 1840 - 318 pages
...Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor: And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away. ON HIS 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 doth...
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Literary leaves, or, Prose and verse: chiefly written in India, Volumes 1-2

David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...these may grow A hundred fold, who, having learned the way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere...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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Gems of sacred poetry [ed. by R. Cattermole?].

Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...these may grow A hundred fold, who having learned thy way. Early may fly the Babylonian woe. ON HIS 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...
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The book of sonnets, ed by A.M. Woodford

A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 pages
...Before the Judge, who thenceforth bid thee rest And drink thy fill of pure, immortal streams. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere...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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Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and ...

Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pages
...this disrespectful to the " sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy'* child," of his juvenile Term ?] SONNET ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere...and present My true account, lest He returning chide ; ' I Mi God exact day-labour, light denied,' I fondly ask .' but Patience to prevent That murmur,...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 17

1857 - 830 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...account, lest He, returning, chide ; Doth God exact day labor, light denied 1 I fondly ask ; but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, 'God doth...
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