Spring: Sunday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
How shall I praise Thee, Lord of light?How all thy generous love declare?Though earth is veil'd in shades of night,Thy ...
John Bowring Poems on Prayers (24 Poems)
Winter: Sunday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
God of the morning! Thou, the sabbath's God!Round whose bright footsteps thousand planets roll:A million beings at Thy mighty nodAre ...
Autumn: Monday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
O God! Thy kingdom is a mansion bright,Where peace and joy and truth and love and lightMingle harmoniously; while like ...
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 ...
Winter: Tuesday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
The earth again puts on its evening dress;And wakening yon innumerable stars,A twilight, milder than the eye of dayAnd fairer ...
Winter: Wednesday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
The earth again puts on its evening dress;And wakening yon innumerable stars,A twilight, milder than the eye of dayAnd fairer ...
Evening Praises (John Bowring Poems)
How shall we praise Thee, Lord of light! How shall we all Thy love declare!The earth is veiled in shades of ...
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 ...
The Divine Apocalypse (John Bowring Poems)
In the apocalypse sublime The new created world shall seeEternity embracing time, Space swallowed in infinity;Each sun, each star, each heavenly orb,Shall ...
Perpetual Praise (John Bowring Poems)
When wakened by Thy voice of power, The hour of morning beams in light,My voice shall sing that morning hour, And Thee ...
Humble Worship (John Bowring Poems)
Bow down Thine ear, Almighty One! Though from earth's vale our pray'rs ascend,Still they may reach Thy heav'nly throne, And with the ...
Comfort in God’s Goodness (John Bowring Poems)
He who in nature's desolate distress Hath felt his helplessness,And, looking out for comfort all around, No single ray has found,Till he ...
Acceptable Worship (John Bowring Poems)
The secret—nay, the silent prayer, Which the meek spirit wafts above,Will meet with sweet acceptance there, And bloom around the throne of ...
God our Strength (John Bowring Poems)
Have ye not seen? have ye not heard? And hath it not been told to you?"From the beginning," that the Lord Will ...
Loss of Friends (John Bowring Poems)
In grief's deep solitude, we turn To Thee our God! and thence preferThe prayers of those who, doomed to mourn, Seek comfort ...
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 ...
Dedication of First Edition: To Dr. Lant Carpenter (John Bowring Poems)
Within my infant breast paternal careThe living seed of young devotion planted,And watched and watered it—and prayed and panted,That it ...
Agar’s Petition (John Bowring Poems)
If we may breathe a prayer to Thee, Our Father and our Friend,Let neither wealth nor poverty Our earthly steps attend.But Thou, ...
Hymn: Hear my cry, O God! attend (John Bowring Poems)
Hear my cry, O God! attend To my humble, earnest prayer;From the earth's remotest end I will call, if Thou wilt hear.When ...
Hymn: When before Thy throne we kneel (John Bowring Poems)
When before Thy throne we kneel, Filled with awe and holy fear,Teach us, O our God! to feel All Thy sacred presence ...
God the chief Good (John Bowring Poems)
Lord! to live, to die to Thee, Ever, ever to be Thine;Now and for eternity; Father! Friend! to call Thee mine,And when ...
Hymn: The offerings to Thy throne which rise (John Bowring Poems)
The offerings to Thy throne which rise, Of mingled praise and prayer,Are but a worthless sacrifice, Unless the heart is there.Upon Thine ...
“Father, glorify Thy Name” (John Bowring Poems)
"Father! glorify Thy name," Whatsoe'er our portion be; Wheresoever led by Thee,If to glory—if to shame—"Father! glorify Thy name."Let Thy name be ...
Laborare est orare (John Bowring Poems)
"To labour is to pray"—a truth Brought from old times for me and you,Fit to be learnt by age and youth, A ...