Siste, Viator! (John Bowring Poems)
Look around thee—see decayOn her wing of darkness, sweepingEarth's proud monuments away—See the muse of history weepingO'er the ruins time ...
John Bowring Poems on Thought & Thinking (36 Poems)
Winter: Friday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
True! Spring renews the faded year;And renovated fruits and flowersIn re-awaken'd charms appear:—They deck the plain—they crown the bowers—Their blush ...
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 ...
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 ...
Evening Thoughts on Death (John Bowring Poems)
The good man dies—it grieves us:Why should the good man die?He dies—but, dying, leaves usA lasting legacy.And this becomes our ...
Autumn: Thursday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
The orient is lighted with crimson glow, The night and its dreams are fled,And the glorious roll of nature now Is in ...
Spring: Monday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
Thou, Lord! art all in all—and man is nought:For tho' in privileged hours his soaring thoughtWould seem to catch a ...
Divine Influences (John Bowring Poems)
Thou, whose high praise in heaven and earth is sung,Each heart pervading, tuning every tongue;Thou, whom my soul devoutly would ...
Anxieties and Comforts (John Bowring Poems)
The dreams which early moments deck'd—Hope's sunny summer hours, are o'er;And my frail bark at last is wreck'dOn sullen reason's ...
Autumn: Saturday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
The sun comes forward in his purple robeFrom the dark chambers of the tranquil night!The smiles of morning gild the ...
Blessings of Instruction (John Bowring Poems)
The heart has tendrils like the vine,Which round another's bosom twine,Outspringing from the living treeOf deeply-planted sympathy;Whose flowers are hope, ...
Spring: Saturday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
As from the vapours of the eastThe sun o'er morning's twilight steals,So truth illumes the pious breast,When man his inmost ...
Matter and Mind (John Bowring Poems)
If in the vast material world No atom ever perished—thoughIn multitudinous changes hurl'd Upwards and downwards, to and fro,And all that in ...
Hymn: From the recesses of a lowly spirit (John Bowring Poems)
From the recesses of a lowly spiritMy humble prayer ascends—O Father! hear it!Upsoaring on the wings of fear and meekness, Forgive ...
Hymn: Why should dreams so dark and dreary (John Bowring Poems)
Why should dreams so dark and dreary Fill my thought? Is there nought,Nought to soothe and bless the weary?Night may wrap the ...
Brotherly Love (John Bowring Poems)
The strong and sovran links that bindThe sympathizing mind with mind,Were moulded in the courts above;And kind design of Heavenly ...
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 ...
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 ...
Religious Comfort (John Bowring Poems)
A thousand, thousand changing things Man's mortal pilgrimage befall;But virtue, but religion, brings Sweet hopes and steadfast joys for all.The restlessness that ...
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 ...
Value of Time (John Bowring Poems)
The days of mortal man Are vain, and swiftly gone;Yet virtuous thoughts and deeds May hallow ev'ry one; There's not a day Or hour ...
Death a Blessing (John Bowring Poems)
O could our art, or our desire, Make mortal man immortal here,And kindle an eternal fire From life's vain sparks of hope ...
Confidence in God (1) (John Bowring Poems)
"Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."—Matt. ch. iv. v. 34.Await not with dismay To-morrow's threatening things;Sufficient to the day The ...
Truth in Progress (John Bowring Poems)
Yes! hopeful—trustful—onward ever, Each helping each—all urging all;The mighty stream, receding never; The rippling flow—the waterfall.Slow—swift, but irresistibly,Rolls the grand tide of ...
Buddhism (John Bowring Poems)
Abstraction from all thought, all care, all love, All hatred and all sympathy; can this— This soul-annihilation—be Heaven's bliss?This, virtue's highest recompense ...
God is One (John Bowring Poems)
One! One! One! art Thou, Judge and King and God alone:Thee we worship, and allow None to share Thy glory—none!Great, great, great, ...
Traveller’s Hymn (John Bowring Poems)
I wander through a foreign land, And still Thy love is mine;And, guided by Thy gracious hand, I feel that I am ...
God Omnipresent (John Bowring Poems)
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 ...
Lessons of Time for Eternity (John Bowring Poems)
Man is not left untold, untaught, Untrained by Heav'n to heavenly things;No! ev'ry fleeting hour has brought Lessons of wisdom on its ...
Immortality (John Bowring Poems)
Round us, o'er us, is there aughtWhich can fill our highest thought; Aught which may deserve to beWith our noblest aims ...