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 War & Peace (55 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: 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: 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 ...
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 ...
Summer: Tuesday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
How wisely is the stream of life controll'dIn its mild course—exhausted, and renew'd;When toiling day its hurried tide has roll'd,Comes ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Spring: Thursday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Peace 'neath the stars may fix her seat,And bliss look smiling from on high,When spirits hold communion sweetWith brighter spirits ...
Winter: Sunday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Sweetly is the sabbath fled,Day of peace and rest to me;"Let Thy name be hallowed."Now my spirit soars to Thee.Darkness ...
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 ...
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 ...
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: He who walks in virtue’s way (John Bowring Poems)
He who walks in virtue's way, Firm and fearless, walketh surely;Diligent while yet 'tis day, On he speeds, and speeds securely.Flowers of ...
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 ...
Funeral Hymn (John Bowring Poems)
"Clay to clay, and dust to dust!"Let them mingle—for they must!Give to earth the earthly clod,For the spirit's fled to ...
Hymn: We walked in darkness, but at last (John Bowring Poems)
We walked in darkness, but at last Are cheered by Heaven's eternal light;The dreary shades of death are past, And all beyond ...
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 ...
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 ...
Morning Hymn (John Bowring Poems)
My earliest thought be turned to Him Who, while in slumber's arms I lay,Through helpless hours and darkness dim, Has brought me ...
Iesus wept (John Bowring Poems)
He wept, as He approached the place Where the departed Lazarus slept;The clouds of sorrow veiled His face, And, in His anguish. ...
The Dawning of the Day (John Bowring Poems)
O the world is full of woe! When will it pass away?These heavings to and fro Till the dawning of the day,Like ...
Iesus the Day-star (John Bowring Poems)
Long had the darkness of ages surrounded Earth and its sons, when the day-star on highBroke from the mists, and with ...