Summer: Friday Morning: To The Incomprehens (John Bowring Poems)
First, Mightiest Deity! Eternal Mind!Revealed—but hidden One!Thou in a vale of fadeless glory shrin'd,Yet to all seen and known!Holy Jehovah! ...
John Bowring Poems on Time (50 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Winter: Wednesday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
The hour of peace resumes againIts tranquil, silent, solemn reign;Sorrow a short cessation knowsOn the soft couch of calm repose,And ...
Winter: Monday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
And so the active week againIts course begins—and so renew'd,Our moments' busy multitude,Falling like rapid drops of rain,Sink in the ...
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 ...
Summer: Friday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Hour after hour steals rapidly away,Bearing past pleasures on its airy wings,E'en like the sunny clouds, which evening's rayGilds with ...
Morning Thoughts (John Bowring Poems)
Come, let us leave the vain, the proud,The ambitious, and the worldly wise;Pomp's revels, turbulent and loud,And pleasure's tempting vanities;And ...
Summer: Wednesday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
Father! at whose awakening nodThe early day-break gilds the hills;'Tis Thine almighty mandate, God!Which mountain, valley, sea and sod,With light ...
Summer: Saturday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
The sand of another week has run,All but its last and closing day;And its few remnant moments soonThe common ruin ...
Summer: Thursday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Calm is the eve, and nature's wasting strengthIs, by the gentle influence of repose,Repair'd, rekindled;—with the morning's dawn,As if new-born, ...
Winter: Saturday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
Another portion of life rolls on, The week glides calmly by;And down the swift stream of time we run, To the sea ...
Autumn: Sunday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
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 ...
Summer: Monday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
The evening twilight gently dies;The air is cool; the silent nightSerenely reigns; the curtain'd skiesTo contemplation's shrine invite;The labours of ...
Autumn: Friday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Father! Source of light and love!Thou, whose throne of majesty,Fix'd yon thousand suns above,Gladdens all the earth with joy:Mercy-streaming, promise-beaming,Let ...
Autumn: Wednesday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
Extinguish'd is the last lone star,The shadows of night are gone,And lo! in the east, day's golden carIs fill'd by ...
The Future of Mankind (John Bowring Poems)
To Sir John Bowring.What is the future of mankind, Its progress or its light to me,In the deep craving of my ...
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 ...
Persecution (John Bowring Poems)
Let those who doubt the heavenly sourceOf revelation's page divine,Use as their weapons fraud and force—No such unhallow'd arms are ...
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 Tide of Tendency (John Bowring Poems)
'Tis the same great all-influencing Cause,The source of those inexorable laws Which gives its motion to the mountain rill,And by the ...
Mysteries of Providence (John Bowring Poems)
Lord! in the unbeginning years, Whose course is wrapt in trackless night,Ere Thou hadst launched the heavenly spheres, Or waked this wandering ...
The Blessed Dead (John Bowring Poems)
Is it not death to summon allThe records of the past—to call,From every niche in Memory's hall, The fancies of departed ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Wise Man–builds upon a Rock (John Bowring Poems)
He builds his house upon the sand, Who builds, great God! on aught but Thee!He is a wanderer in the land,Who ...
Ioy after Sorrow (John Bowring Poems)
As when the deluge waves were gone, Hills, plains, and vales in freshness burst,And nature's earliest rainbow shone On scenes more lovely ...