Spring: Tuesday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
'Tis now the solemn hour when spirits comeTo alarm credulity—'tis now the hourWhen disembodied ghosts have awful powerTo burst the ...
John Bowring Poems on Christianity (21 Poems)
Winter: Thursday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
The day is done;—the night comes calmly forth,Bringing sweet rest upon the wings of even:The golden wain rolls round the ...
The Good Samaritan (John Bowring Poems)
Passing Berytus' ancient strand,I journeyed in the Holy Land,And made my way to Sychar's wall;And there, within his princely hall,By ...
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 ...
The House of God (John Bowring Poems)
Written for the Dedication Services at Oakfield Road Church, Clifton. 13th Nov. 1864.A house to God the Monarch built, For altars ...
Iesus lives (John Bowring Poems)
He is not here, He is risen."Jesus lives, and we in Him; Jesus from the grave is risen:He hath burst the ...
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 ...
Progress of Gospel Truth (John Bowring Poems)
Upon the Gospel's sacred page The gathered beams of ages shine;And as it hastens, every age But makes its brightness more divine.On ...
Scriptural Hymn (John Bowring Poems)
That Christ who o'er His Lazarus wept, And said, "The dead again shall rise!"Is "the first fruits of them that slept," Their ...
The Dawning of the Day (John Bowring Poems)
O the world is full of woe! When will it pass away?These heavings to and fro Till the dawning of the day,Like ...
The Cross of Christ (John Bowring Poems)
In the Cross of Christ I glory, Tow'ring o'er the wrecks of time,All the light of sacred story Gathers round its head ...
Ressurection (John Bowring Poems)
"Now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them that slept."—1 Cor. ch. xv. v. ...
The Life of Christ (John Bowring Poems)
The Life of Christ!—that loveliest book, Of all man's trust, the history;On which admiring ages look With ever-growing sympathy.The Life of Christ!—could ...
The Heart knoweth its own Bitterness (John Bowring Poems)
Though the stream of being floweth Calmly to the sea of peace,Though the weary pilgrim goeth To his home of sleep and ...
God our Comforter (John Bowring Poems)
I'll trust my future fate to Thee, All-good, all-wise, Almighty One!If Thou control my destiny, And I repose on Thee alone, I shall ...
Iesus teaching the People (John Bowring Poems)
How sweetly flowed the Gospel's sound From lips of gentleness and grace,When listening thousands gathered round, And joy and reverence filled the ...
The Poor have the Gospel preached unto Them (John Bowring Poems)
The Gospel is preached to the poor; They long were abandoned and lone:They now are forgotten no more— The light of the ...
Slavery (John Bowring Poems)
Can a vast interest veil a monstrous curse And make it like a virtue? can the din Whose thunders drown the wail ...
Easter Hymn (John Bowring Poems)
Christ is risen and death subdued, He hath hurled the conqueror down,And the dark grave's solitude Lighted from His glory-crown:Called to His ...
Christian Unity (John Bowring Poems)
Keep the unity of spirit, Keep it in the bonds of peace,So alone shall we inherit Hope, and truth, and blessedness.Unity—the link'd ...
Hymn: Come to the waters, ye who thirst (John Bowring Poems)
Come to the waters, ye who thirst, The waters of salvation's springs;Come, ye benighted! to the burst Of morning, which the Gospel ...