Spring: Sunday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
How shall I praise Thee, Lord of light?How all thy generous love declare?Though earth is veil'd in shades of night,Thy ...
How shall I praise Thee, Lord of light?How all thy generous love declare?Though earth is veil'd in shades of night,Thy ...
True! Spring renews the faded year;And renovated fruits and flowersIn re-awaken'd charms appear:—They deck the plain—they crown the bowers—Their blush ...
How wisely is the stream of life controll'dIn its mild course—exhausted, and renew'd;When toiling day its hurried tide has roll'd,Comes ...
Hour after hour steals rapidly away,Bearing past pleasures on its airy wings,E'en like the sunny clouds, which evening's rayGilds with ...
Father! at whose awakening nodThe early day-break gilds the hills;'Tis Thine almighty mandate, God!Which mountain, valley, sea and sod,With light ...
The sand of another week has run,All but its last and closing day;And its few remnant moments soonThe common ruin ...
Calm is the eve, and nature's wasting strengthIs, by the gentle influence of repose,Repair'd, rekindled;—with the morning's dawn,As if new-born, ...
O God! Thy kingdom is a mansion bright,Where peace and joy and truth and love and lightMingle harmoniously; while like ...
The sun comes forward in his purple robeFrom the dark chambers of the tranquil night!The smiles of morning gild the ...
Of all the gifts conferr'd by heaven,Time is the brightest—is the best;Through time eternity is given;By earthly labours—heavenly rest.While days ...
Stillness reigns—the vapours stealSlowly down the mountain's brow,And the evening shadows veilNature's face of brightness now;Flowers put off their glorious ...
The earth again puts on its evening dress;And wakening yon innumerable stars,A twilight, milder than the eye of dayAnd fairer ...
The earth again puts on its evening dress;And wakening yon innumerable stars,A twilight, milder than the eye of dayAnd fairer ...
From the recesses of a lowly spiritMy humble prayer ascends—O Father! hear it!Upsoaring on the wings of fear and meekness, Forgive ...
My wife! my children! when death's hour is come, Dry every, every gushing tear, I pray,And rather smile, that I am ...
"The Righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance."Earth's transitory things decay,Its pomps, its pleasures pass away;But the sweet memory of the ...
By what a charm is life attended, Led from activity to rest,The past, the future, sweetly blended, To make the present blest!The ...
There is no terror in the grave For him who, in its gloominess,Perceives Thy hand, outstretched to save, Thy welcoming smile that ...
Round us, o'er us, is there aughtWhich can fill our highest thought; Aught which may deserve to beWith our noblest aims ...
How sweetly flowed the Gospel's sound From lips of gentleness and grace,When listening thousands gathered round, And joy and reverence filled the ...
Hear my cry, O God! attend To my humble, earnest prayer;From the earth's remotest end I will call, if Thou wilt hear.When ...
When shall mortal man be crowned, Crowned with immortality?Shadows here our path surround; Nothing is reality.Mists and darkness cover us— When shall they ...
We walk by faith, and not by sight; And if we ever go astray,Do Thou, O Lord! conduct us right, And lead ...
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