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 - Page 312by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1894Full view - About this book
| English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...these may grow A hundred fold, who, having learned thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe. HI. — 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... | |
| James Hamilton - 1857 - 494 pages
...i3Imtme$». 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... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...HILTON. 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... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 372 pages
...wisdom that hare it ; and those that are fool•, la: them use their talents. Twelfth Night, i. 5. that one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more hent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He, returning, chide. MILTON. Sonnets.... | |
| Thomas Vincent Fosbery - 1857 - 436 pages
...BLINDNESS. MILTON. 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... | |
| James Hamilton - 1857 - 532 pages
...Bltntmcss. 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... | |
| William Jones (F.S.A.) - 1857 - 468 pages
...Resignation. 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... | |
| William Henry Milburn - 1857 - 330 pages
..." When I consider how my life is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that ono 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 ; 1 Doth God... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent8 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; IJpth God... | |
| William Henry Milburn - 1858 - 314 pages
...strain: " 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... | |
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