John Keble
John Keble
John Keblewas an English churchman and poet, one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement. Keble College, Oxford was named after him...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth25 April 1792
pure sleep tonight
Be every mourner's sleep tonight / Like infant's slumbers, pure and light.
finding-yourself way self-pity
When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.
time water
Time's waters will not ebb nor stay.
tasks common rounds
The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask.
triumph saint looks
Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain.
eden voice love-and-marriage
The voice that breathed o'er Eden, That earliest wedding day.
humility lifts true-humility
God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.