Summer: Friday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Hour after hour steals rapidly away,Bearing past pleasures on its airy wings,E'en like the sunny clouds, which evening's rayGilds with ...
John Bowring Poems on Belief & Faith (16 Poems)
Autumn: Monday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
Waked by Thy sun, again my thoughts ascendTo Thee, my heavenly Father! and they blendIn one devotional hymn of praise ...
Autumn: Friday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Father! Source of light and love!Thou, whose throne of majesty,Fix'd yon thousand suns above,Gladdens all the earth with joy:Mercy-streaming, promise-beaming,Let ...
Spring: Wednesday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Almighty Being! wise and holy,Who hast to each his portion given;To the poor worm his station lowly,And to the choirs ...
Mysteries of Providence (John Bowring Poems)
Lord! in the unbeginning years, Whose course is wrapt in trackless night,Ere Thou hadst launched the heavenly spheres, Or waked this wandering ...
Faith and Works (John Bowring Poems)
Faith, untrained to works, is nought! Idle are the soundest creeds;Christian faith is holy thought— Christian merit, righteous deeds.If the purest doubting ...
Dedicatory Hymn (John Bowring Poems)
Composed For The Opening of Chapel Lane ChapelBeyond the immeasurable space Where glimmers the remotest star;Beyond those cycles whence we trace, Though ...
Faith, Hope, Charity (John Bowring Poems)
"And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity."—1 Cor. ch. xiii. v. 13.Heaven's ...
Song of the Triumphant Christian (John Bowring Poems)
My task of duty's done, The glorious fight is won,My course is finished—and I look on high: And now, Almighty Lord! I wait ...
Lord! I believe (John Bowring Poems)
Lord! I believe: but if a doubt Should shake my weak and wand'ring soul,Let Reason drive the intruder out, And Truth my ...
Confidence (John Bowring Poems)
Is it not strange that men who loudest boast Of the unshaken basis of their faith,Are those who tremble most and ...
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 ...
Life in Death (John Bowring Poems)
Dying is but a second birth,In which the darksome coil of earthIs shuffled off by mortal men—And the freed spirit ...
We walk by Faith, and not by Sight (John Bowring Poems)
We walk by faith, and not by sight; And if we ever go astray,Do Thou, O Lord! conduct us right, And lead ...
Toleration (John Bowring Poems)
I saw, and gladness through my heart's folds ran,An honest man salute an honest man!(A hiss or two was heard; ...
Eternal Punishment (John Bowring Poems)
Strange faith! strange fancy! that can revel In doctrines which, if true, would makeOf man, a wretch;—of God, a devil— And our ...