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 ...
John Bowring Poems on Truth (31 Poems)
Spring: Monday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
My eye look'd round upon the vast expanseOf glorious Nature—and my raptured vision,Revelling in the early day-beams' waken'd glance,Saw rocks, ...
Summer: Sunday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
"Let not your hearts be troubled, but confide"In me as ye confide in God; I go"A mansion for my followers ...
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: 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 ...
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 ...
Autumn: Friday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
This is the day when prejudice and guiltThe blood of innocence and virtue spilt!'Twas in those orient Syrian lands afar,O'er ...
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 ...
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 ...
“That They also may be One in Us” (John Bowring Poems)
From house to house the apostles went, With arms of truth and words of power,By their great Master trained and sent, His ...
Faith and Works (John Bowring Poems)
Faith, untrained to works, is nought! Idle are the soundest creeds;Christian faith is holy thought— Christian merit, righteous deeds.If the purest doubting ...
Watchman! what of the Night? (John Bowring Poems)
Watchman! tell us of the night, What its signs of promise are:Traveller! o'er yon mountain's height See that glory-beaming star!Watchman! doth its ...
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 ...
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 ...
Virtue its own Reward (John Bowring Poems)
In Thy bright tabernacle, God! Who shall learn and teach Thy will?And who shall make his blest abode, Almighty! in Thy holy ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Life of Christ (John Bowring Poems)
The Life of Christ!—that loveliest book, Of all man's trust, the history;On which admiring ages look With ever-growing sympathy.The Life of Christ!—could ...
Aspirations after Truth (John Bowring Poems)
The blank, exhausting pleasure leaves, Nought but the power of truth can fill,When disappointed virtue grieves O'er hopeless purpose, helpless will:No light ...
Thy Kingdom Come (John Bowring Poems)
Come Thy kingdom! of all blessings, Of all prayers the first is this;All heaven's hopes,—all earth's possessings, Grace and glory, peace and ...
Lord! I believe (John Bowring Poems)
Lord! I believe: but if a doubt Should shake my weak and wand'ring soul,Let Reason drive the intruder out, And Truth my ...
Confidence (John Bowring Poems)
Is it not strange that men who loudest boast Of the unshaken basis of their faith,Are those who tremble most and ...
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 ...
Aspiration after higher Truth (John Bowring Poems)
One and universal Father!Here in reverent thought we gather, Seeking light in honouring Thee;Free our souls from error's fetter;Make us wiser—make ...
The Bible (John Bowring Poems)
Who is my Christian brother linked with me In true communion? He, with whom I look In common reverence on that sacred ...
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 ...
Christian Unity (John Bowring Poems)
Keep the unity of spirit, Keep it in the bonds of peace,So alone shall we inherit Hope, and truth, and blessedness.Unity—the link'd ...
What Is Truth? (John Bowring Poems)
What is truth? said Pilate, groping In the darkness of his ire.—Trembling, doubting, fearing, hoping, Calmer souls may well inquire,What is truth?—that ...
Toleration (John Bowring Poems)
I saw, and gladness through my heart's folds ran,An honest man salute an honest man!(A hiss or two was heard; ...