greykit.poetry — #blindness

• 1673 [john-milton] Sonnet XIX: When I consider how my light is spent
  Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions

  Blind before half his days are done, the poet asks whether God exacts day-labour of a man he has left in the dark — and patience answers before the question is finished: they also serve who only stand and waite.

  #sonnet#blindness#religion#1670s