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 ...
John Bowring Poems on Time (50 Poems)
The Lord’s Prayer (John Bowring Poems)
O thou high and holy One!Who in heaven hast fixed Thy throne,Whom we God and Father call—Father! dearest name of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Past, Present, and Future (John Bowring Poems)
By what a charm is life attended, Led from activity to rest,The past, the future, sweetly blended, To make the present blest!The ...
Felix trembled (John Bowring Poems)
When the great Apostle spoke To Judea's tyrant lord,Felix trembled as he woke Conscience, with his awful word.When he told of fraud ...
“Whether living or dying, we are Thine” (John Bowring Poems)
To Thee alone we live, To Thee alone we die;Do Thou, O Lord! Thy spirit give, Both life and death to sanctify.The ...
Christian Hopes (John Bowring Poems)
Grandest of heritages, to be taughtTo embrace the immeasurable realms of thought,Beyond the lofty firmament to soar,The deepest of abysses ...
Be sure your Sin will find you out (John Bowring Poems)
There's no retreat from sin—no spot Of refuge can the guilty find:The sin deserts the sinner not Until repentance clears the mind.The ...
Life fleeting and vain (John Bowring Poems)
On! on! our moments hurry by Like shadows of a passing cloud,Till general darkness wraps the sky, And man sleeps senseless in ...
The Truth (John Bowring Poems)
The age for damning, dogmatizing creeds, Thanks to the power of Truth, has passed away,For man hath nobler thoughts and higher ...
Sonnet II (John Bowring Poems)
"Peace!" shall the world out-wearied ever seeIts universal reign? Will states, will kings,Put down those murderous and unholy thingsWhich fill ...
Ohne hast und ohne Rast (John Bowring Poems)
"Ohne hast und ohne Rast," Is the immutable decreeOf the present,—of the past,— Of the future,—and shall beLong as time itself shall ...
Dedication To Second Edition: To Mrs. Barbauld (John Bowring Poems)
Thou hast heard many voices hymning thee,Who didst awake their purest, earliest strains;Flowing like mingling rivulets o'er the plainsThey water—till ...
Christian Triumphs (John Bowring Poems)
Though laurel crowns and victor wreaths Be for the sons of triumph twined;Though song her sweetest music breathes For the destroyers of ...
God with Us (John Bowring Poems)
Am I lonely? No! with God Solitude can ne'er be mine:Everywhere my foot hath trod Feels His influence divine:And where'er I yet ...
Salvation (John Bowring Poems)
"Sing no more the song of Moses!" Sing a loftier, louder lay!For the time of twilight closes, And then dawns th'eternal day.A ...
Life in Death (John Bowring Poems)
Dying is but a second birth,In which the darksome coil of earthIs shuffled off by mortal men—And the freed spirit ...
Sabbath Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Close the sabbath-day in joy, Close the sabbath-day in praise;O how lovely the employ, Anthems in God's name to raise!Whose sweet-echoed notes ...
Changes Wrought by Time (John Bowring Poems)
And time rolls on!—time, charged with the redressing Of past injustice, past forgetfulness,Brings up the arrear-accumulated blessing, And blesses men, in that ...