Hymn: If all our hopes and all our fears (John Bowring Poems)
If all our hopes and all our fears Were prisoned in life's narrow bound;If, travellers through this vale of tears, We saw ...
John Bowring Poems on World (49 Poems)
The World Beautiful (John Bowring Poems)
Ours is a lovely world! Where'erWe turn our eyes 'tis bright and fair: The seasons in their courses fall,And bring successive ...
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 ...
“Ye cannot serve God and Mammon” (John Bowring Poems)
Not a broken, brief obedience Doth the Lord of heaven demand;He requires your whole allegiance, Words and deeds, and heart and hand:God ...
The Greatest of all is Charity (John Bowring Poems)
When first the Almighty Father's thought Created man,—how wondrouslyHis virtue-giving spirit wrought The mystic cords of Charity.To live for others, and to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Retirement (John Bowring Poems)
Happy is he who knows not solitude!The hour when to the world he seems aloneIs spent with God!—All cares, all ...
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 ...
“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 ...
Elevated Aims (John Bowring Poems)
O garland not the worthless weedsWhich shade the sweet flowers in the meads, Neglecting the most bright and fairLike undiscerning zealots ...
Hymn: The heaven’s my throne, saith the Lord our God (John Bowring Poems)
The heaven's my throne, saith the Lord our God, Although my feet the earth have prest;But where have I built my ...
Aspirations (John Bowring Poems)
O my soul! a few short moments Let us from the world retire;Let us leave these scenes of darkness And to brighter ...
God our only Refuge (John Bowring Poems)
When my days have told their number, Told their tales of joy and pain,And from death's concluding slumber I shall be aroused ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pure Religion and Undefiled (John Bowring Poems)
Pure and undefiled religion, In our God and Father's sight,Is, to pour on helpless orphans Balm of healing and delight:'Tis to visit ...
Chivalry (John Bowring Poems)
Now tell me what is chivalry?To battle in the foremost fightFor anything—for wrong—for right,For some fair lady's scornful smile,For what ...
Lines addressed to E. B. (John Bowring Poems)
In this busy world, where the trial and testIs to do what we can,—ever doing our best;We may think of ...