My Own Place (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Whoever I am, wherever my lot, Whatever I happen to be,Contentment and Duty shall hallow the spot That Providence orders for me;No ...
Whoever I am, wherever my lot, Whatever I happen to be,Contentment and Duty shall hallow the spot That Providence orders for me;No ...
Then said Almitra, "Speak to us of Love."And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell ...
Muse, bid the morn awake,Sad winter now declines,Each bird doth choose a mate,This day's St. Valentine's;For that good bishop's sakeGet ...
Again th' Almighty mounts his lofty Throne, And on his Right Hand sate th' Eternal Son. The Royal Writs were ...
THE GENTLEMAN FARMER.Gwyn was a farmer, whom the farmers all,Who dwelt around, "the Gentleman" would call;Whether in pure humility or ...
The poet hath a realm within, and throne,And in his own soul singeth his lament.A comer often in the world ...
And what is life?--a pleasure and a pain, A vision of the sun--a day of rain. And what is love?--a ...
'TIS well--that Man to all the varying statesOf good and ill his mind accommodates;He not alone progressive grief sustains,But soon ...
PROLOGUE. Woe! to the just occasion that compels My verse to satire, when my soul rebels; Must I, unskill'd her ...
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter,And from the orchard a voice echoes and echoes ...
(The exile Meliboeus finds Tityrus in possession of his own farm,restored to him by the emperor Augustus, and a conversation ...
BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: —"Lo, now, this sea-booty, son of Healfdene,Lord of Scyldings, we've lustily brought thee,sign of glory; ...
Lost! lost! lost!The famed and gracious Anne is no more,Her sceptre broken, now her power is o'er,Ye judges, who, to-day ...
The criminal of other daysWas tortured in outlandish ways;Upon the rack they'd break his backOr at the stake they'd burn ...
My lovely Silvia, while in blooming youthYour mental powers are active all and gay,Attend the voice (the voice of Love ...
(With deep bows to Adelaide Anne Proctor's heirs, administrators and assigns.)Before I trust my ...
WHAT virtuous philosophic Greek,Of whom mankind with rev'rence speak, By poison doomed to die,Rejects the favourable hour,To thwart capricious ...
WHAT are we set on earth for? Say, to toil;Nor seek to leave thy tending of the vinesFor all the ...
When Julius Fabricius, Sub-Prefect of the Weald, In the days of Diocletian owned our Lower River-field, He called to him ...
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter, And from the orchard a voice echoes and ...
Nature assigns the Sun -- That -- is Astronomy -- Nature cannot enact a Friend -- That -- is Astrology. ...
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