The Unit (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
The world can do without us: every one Hath every other as his waiting heir; And, though affections be not lacking there,Each ...
The world can do without us: every one Hath every other as his waiting heir; And, though affections be not lacking there,Each ...
DwellingsYES! we've our Borough-vices, and I knowHow far they spread, how rapidly they grow;Yet think not virtue quits the busy ...
WHAT is a Church?--Let Truth and Reason speak,They would reply, "The faithful, pure, and meek;From Christian folds, the one selected ...
Yes! there are real mourners — I have seenA fair, sad girl, mild, suffering, and serene;Attention (through the day) her ...
(SEPTEMBER, 1779)I"Have a care!" the bailiffs cried From their cockleshell that layOff the frigate's yellow side, Tossing on Scarborough Bay,While ...
WITH tallow casks all dunnaged tight, with tiers on tiers ol bales, With cargo crammed from hatch to hatch, she ...
JACK BOWLIN wuz the joker's name, A sailor chap wuz 'e, Who left his ship, the Golden Flame ,To run ...
"ROSY Bacchus and Pallas once had an affray, Where neither would precedence yield; For each seem'd determin'd on gaining the ...
WE sing no song of Right or Wrong, Or War, or Fame, or Duty; Our chanty free it still shall ...
The breeze was fresh, the ship was in stays,Each breaker hush'd, the shore a haze,When Jack, no more on duty ...
NOW at the window, side by side, We sit and take our ease, And watch the ebb and flow of ...
Who will drink a health with me?Drink together, messmates all!To the men who sat aforetime Where we sit to-night;Brothers they, ...
Then farewell, my tridonotuse-built wherry,Oars and coat and badge, farewell!Never more at Chelsea ferryShall your Thomas take a spell.Then farewell, ...
1895 I the Neolithic Age savage warfare did I wage For food and fame and woolly horses' pelt. I was ...
Oh gallant was our galley from her caren steering-wheel To her figurehead of silver and her beak of hammered steel; ...
(Soudan Expeditionary Force) We've fought with many men acrost the seas, An' some of 'em was brave an' some was ...
A great and glorious thing it is To learn, for seven years or so, The Lord knows what of that ...
(With apologies to the singer of the "Song of the Banjo".) I'm a homely little bit of tin and bone; ...
Upon a lonely desart Beach Where the white foam was scatter'd, A little shed uprear'd its head Though lofty Barks ...
No soft-skinned Durham steers are they, No Devons plump and red, But brindled, black and iron-grey That mark the mountain-bred; ...
'Twas about the beginning of the present century, Bill Bowls was pressed, and sent to sea; And conveyed on board ...
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