Post-Letters (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Lottery tickets every day,-- And ever drawn a blank:Yet none the less we pant and pray For prizes in that bank:Morn by ...
Lottery tickets every day,-- And ever drawn a blank:Yet none the less we pant and pray For prizes in that bank:Morn by ...
"She is here! "to my wild heart I murmurI repeat, "It is she, it is she!"But my wild heart, growing ...
FAREWELL , thou haughty, cruel fair!Upon thy brow no longer wearThat sombre look of cold disdain,I ne'er shall see thy ...
INTO all lives some rain must fall,Into all eyes some tear-drops start,Whether they fall as gentle shower,Or fall like fire ...
This pretty bird, O! how she flies and sings,But could she do so if she had not wings?Her wings bespeak ...
Leodogran, the King of Cameliard, Had one fair daughter, and none other child;And she was the fairest of all flesh ...
Ah! the pleasant time hath vanished, ere our wretched doubtingsbanished,All the graceful spirit-people, children of the earth and sea,Whom in ...
On her bed of protracted and lingering sickness. ONCE again, long silent lyre,Sound beneath this weary finger,Speak--but breathe with holy ...
SEAL'D is it? Where then did you learn the sighThat speaks a knowledge which your lips deny?If its rich treasures ...
WILD rider of grey clouds, beneath whose breath The stars dissolve in mist, or rain, or sleet;Who chariotest the ...
We are dead, and we are buried!Revolution's soul is tame!They are merry o'er our ashes,And our tyrants rule the same!But ...
Toward God in heaven spaciousWith artless faith a boy looks free, As toward his mother gracious,And top of Christmas-tree.But early ...
The new - fangled churches that don't believe I thingsAren't the churches that satisfy me;I 'm firm in my notion ...
At New York.I SAW you seated in your lonely room, Of human friends forlorn, of spirits full, Who gave you ...
Into all lives some rain must fall,Into all eyes some tear-drops start,Whether they fall as gentle shower,Or fall like fire ...
Light of my life ! thy glorious eyesLike stars above my heart arise-Like stars that shine in midnight skies.Down in ...
I "Percussus sum sicut foenum, et aruit cor meum." - Ps. ci Wintertime nighs; But my bereavement-pain It cannot bring ...
Wintertime nighs; But my bereavement-pain It cannot bring again: Twice no one dies. Flower-petals flee; But since it once hath ...
YE Irish lords, ye knights an' squires, Wha represent our brughs an' shires, An' doucely manage our affairs In parliament, ...
Leodogran, the King of Cameliard, Had one fair daughter, and none other child; And she was the fairest of all ...
The ravings which my enemy uttered I heard within my heart; the secret thoughts he harbored against me I also ...
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