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.
bring common deny furnish nearer ought road room trivial
The trivial round, the common task, / Would furnish all we ought to ask; / Room to deny ourselves, a road / To bring us, daily, nearer God.
love morning
New every morning is the love / Our wakening and uprising prove.
blessing keys waiting
Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing that a sinner can reasonably hope for.
night abiding thee
Abide with me from morn to eve, / For without Thee I cannot live: / Abide with me when night is nigh. / For without Thee I dare not die.
heart soul secret
Blest are the pure in heart, for they shall see our God. The secret of the Lord is theirs; Their soul is Christ's abode.
heart heaven solitude
Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.
giving grace listening
Give us grace to listen well.
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.
jesus night soul
Sun of my soul! Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if Thou be near.
death father agony
Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken feels her present God again And in her Father's arms Contented dies away.
brother fire mind
As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.
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.