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 ...
'Tis now the solemn hour when spirits comeTo alarm credulity—'tis now the hourWhen disembodied ghosts have awful powerTo burst the ...
Hours, days, weeks,—so our life-time flows—Gently, as melt the vernal snowsBeneath the sun; they pass away,Like dew-drops in the eye ...
Thou art my glory—Thou my song, whose throneIs built upon the highest heavens—and thenceRollest the spheres by Thine omnipotence—Thou art ...
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 ...
Of all the gifts conferr'd by heaven,Time is the brightest—is the best;Through time eternity is given;By earthly labours—heavenly rest.While days ...
The cold wind strips the yellow leaf,The stars are twinkling faintly o'er us;All nature wears her garb of grief;While day's ...
The evening twilight gently dies;The air is cool; the silent nightSerenely reigns; the curtain'd skiesTo contemplation's shrine invite;The labours of ...
The strong and sovran links that bindThe sympathizing mind with mind,Were moulded in the courts above;And kind design of Heavenly ...
In our unreason and unrest,How little know we what is best! How little can explore the deepWhence emanates our weal and ...
Man is not wholly vile though heMay here a passing pilgrim be;For he can speed across the sea— Soar to the ...
Where'er the foot of man hath trod,He feels the presence of a God:Around, above, beneath,—where'erHis thought can reach, a God ...
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 ...
O my soul! a few short moments Let us from the world retire;Let us leave these scenes of darkness And to brighter ...
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