Siste, Viator! (John Bowring Poems)
Look around thee—see decayOn her wing of darkness, sweepingEarth's proud monuments away—See the muse of history weepingO'er the ruins time ...
Look around thee—see decayOn her wing of darkness, sweepingEarth's proud monuments away—See the muse of history weepingO'er the ruins time ...
Thou best of Beings!—now the night is fled,And day awakes in all its bliss again;Man, rising from his heaven-protected bed,Is ...
To say this comedy pleased long ago,Is not enough to make it pass you now.Yet, gentlemen, your ancestors had wit,When ...
Pass on, returnless year! The track behind thee is with glory crowned; The turf where thou hast trod is holy ground. Pass proudly ...
If thou canst but repent, why shou'dst thou dreadThy sins, however numberous and foul?Since Christ for them was crucify'd, 'till ...
How blest the righteous areWhen they resign their breath!No wonder Balaam wished to shareIn such a happy death.Oh! let me ...
While thus the gentle Aziel, at the sight Of holiness, to thoughts of Heaven recalled, Stood contrite, watchful,--by far different ...
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
PROLOGUE. Woe! to the just occasion that compels My verse to satire, when my soul rebels; Must I, unskill'd her ...
God's armies of Heaven, with pinions extended,Spread wide their white arms to the standard of Light;And bending far down to ...
It is not always to the strongVictorious battle shall belong.This found Goliath huge and tall:Mightiest giant of them all,Who in ...
COME out, said Leonard, bursting through my door, His black curls tangled like a fretting sea,-- "Come out, nor waste ...
"Lord, Who, from Thy high position,See'th the humble politician,Knoweth all his secret schemes,Readeth all his inmost dreams,Hearken, Lord, unto our ...
Handed over by Pilate appeasing the shouts of the crowd handing the innocent the lamb of God over to be ...
Unrighteous, unholy tribunal illegal trial, false witnesses - Love ridiculed, mocked as blasphemy The shadow of accusation, of cruel judgment ...
"And the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the heads of the children, even unto the third and ...
God the supreme Governor; or, Magistrates warned. Among th' assemblies of the great A greater Ruler takes his seat; The ...
1 MANHATTAN'S streets I saunter'd, pondering, On time, space, reality-on such as these, and abreast with them, prudence. 2 After ...
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
The heavenly frame sets forth the fame Of him that only thunders; The firmament, so strangely bent, Shows his handworking ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
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