Autumn: Wednesday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
The evening star is aloft in heaven, Palely it shines alone;And nought is awake in the eye of even, But the never-sleeping ...
John Bowring Poems on Children (8 Poems)
Winter: Monday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
The night has thrown its shadows o'er the land,And rest re-visits nature.—Evening's train,With day's extinguish'd torches in their hand,Have pass'd ...
Autumn: Friday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
This is the day when prejudice and guiltThe blood of innocence and virtue spilt!'Twas in those orient Syrian lands afar,O'er ...
Mourn Not As Those Without Hope (John Bowring Poems)
My wife! my children! when death's hour is come, Dry every, every gushing tear, I pray,And rather smile, that I am ...
Hymn: Father and Friend! Thy light, Thy love (John Bowring Poems)
Father and Friend! Thy light, Thy love Beaming through all Thy works we see;Thy glory gilds the heavens above, And all the ...
To My Children (John Bowring Poems)
Two names I had inscribed upon this page,Dear to my youth—and to my manhood dear—But those who bore them dwell ...
Parental Providence (John Bowring Poems)
As gentle children fondly press Around their mother's knee,So, in my spirit's helplessness, I fly, my God! to Thee:And, as a mother's ...
Brotherhood of Humanity (John Bowring Poems)
From the sacred banks, where Ganges Pours its strong, majestic flood,From Himalaya's mountain ranges Come the strains of brotherhood;Brotherhood's fraternal strain,Which the ...