The Truth (John Bowring Poems)
The age for damning, dogmatizing creeds, Thanks to the power of Truth, has passed away,For man hath nobler thoughts and higher ...
The age for damning, dogmatizing creeds, Thanks to the power of Truth, has passed away,For man hath nobler thoughts and higher ...
Speak ye a true tongue,Or waste ye with words the Soul's song?A damning evidence is with wasted words;For need I ...
Joy was in Israel; for all hoped that, now, A three days' journey in the wilderness Verily should they go, ...
I.The times are changed, and gone the dayWhen the high heavenly land,Though unbeheld, quite near them lay,And men could understand.The ...
Scene I.A Garden on the banks of the Thames, at Fulham, behind the Wynnes' lodgings. Time, evening. Moon and starlight. ...
Three times the glorious god of light, and life, Along the sapphire pavement of the sky Careering,--through the immense of ...
But in her Temple's last recess inclos'd, On Dulness' lap th' Anointed head repos'd. Him close she curtains round with ...
Scene I.The great Hall of Wynhavod House. The walls hung with old portraits, arms, trophies of the chase, and a ...
IOh, I am wild—wild!Angels of the weary-hearted, come to thy child.Spread your white wings over me!Tenderly, tenderly,Lovingly, lovingly,Plead for me, ...
DOST long for sunrise?--quench the vain desire, And bar thy window 'gainst the eastern fire. Thy fathers dwelt content in ...
'Tis morn.An individualistic cockProclaims the fact.The dissipated cat sneaks home forlorn.'Tis time to get up and act!'Tis eight o'clock!The stern ...
Repent, or I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight thee with the sword of my mouth.—Revelation ii. 16.IAshkelon ...
From the indigo straits to Ossian's seas, on pink and orange sands washed by the vinous sky, crystal boulevards have ...
Ho! children of the brave,Ho! freemen of the land,That hurl'd into the graveOppression's bloody band;Come on, come on, and joined ...
CVIf thou art sinful, there are thousands then Who howl from pulpits, and make dreary night Of texts as barefaced ...
I What's become of Waring Since he gave us all the slip, Chose land-travel or seafaring, Boots and chest, or ...
Victory over death. 1 Cor. 15:55ff O for an overcoming faith To cheer my dying hours; To triumph o'er the ...
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
Rich fools there be, whose base and filthy heart Lies hatching still the goods wherein they flow: And damning their ...
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
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