Winter: Saturday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Lord! to whose being ages are but moments,Fugitive moments! Thou, Eternal Father!Listen in mercy—for life's passing shadows Soon will be scatter'd.'Tis ...
Lord! to whose being ages are but moments,Fugitive moments! Thou, Eternal Father!Listen in mercy—for life's passing shadows Soon will be scatter'd.'Tis ...
AT THE REVERE HOUSE,SEPTEMBER 25,1861THE land of sunshine and of song!Her name your hearts divine;To her the banquet's vows belongWhose ...
There are two mountains hallowed By majesty sublime,Which rear their crests unconquered Above the floods of Time.Uncounted generations Have gazed on them with ...
O sweeping wave of white and red,Flow ever at the column's head !O star-lit field of blue, lead onWhere Trust ...
From depths of woe I raise to TheeThe voice of lamentation;Lord, turn a gracious ear to meAnd hear my supplication;If ...
No fanciful hope, and no cowardly fear Shall ever be lord of my breast,An Englishman gathers his comfort and cheer From Duty ...
O God! Thou art my God alone;Early to Thee my soul shall cry;A pilgrim in a land unknown,A thirsty land ...
Most like an arch-an entrance which upholdsand shores the stone-crush up the air like lace.Mass made idea, and idea held ...
How precious are thy thoughts of peace,O God! to me; how great their sum!New every morn, they never cease;They were, ...
New light gives new directions, fortunes new, To fashion our endeavours that ensue. More harsh, at least more ...
Within the night, above the dark,I heard a host upon the air,Upon the void they made no mark,For all that ...
Sooner I'd praise a Cloud which Light beguiles, Than thy rash Hand which robs this Face of Smiles; And does ...
Gay balloons and coloured streamers,Gliding figures, footsteps light,Flannelled youths and short-frocked maidensJazzing gaily through the night.Music quaint and queer and ...
AS those who pass the Alps do say, The Rocks which first oppose their way, And so amazing-High do show, ...
Sooner I'd praise a Cloud which Light beguiles, Than thy rash Hand which robs this Face of Smiles; And does ...
(Revelations, iii. 1-6) "Write to Sardis," saith the Lord, "And write what He declares, He whose Spirit, and whose word, ...
O THOU, the first, the greatest friend Of all the human race! Whose strong right hand has ever been Their ...
WHEN biting Boreas, fell and dour, Sharp shivers thro' the leafless bow'r; When Phoebus gies a short-liv'd glow'r, Far south ...
A song for the fifth of November. Had not the Lord, may Isr'el say, Had not the Lord maintained our ...
v.6-10 C. M. Midnight thoughts recollected. 'Twas in the watches of the night I thought upon thy power, I kept ...
Now listen to me and I'll tell you my views concerning the African war, And the man who upholds any ...
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