A Dirge For Wellington (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
A voice of lamentation From the islands of the Sea!Alas, thou sorrowing Nation, Bereaved — alas for thee!The wail as of a ...
A voice of lamentation From the islands of the Sea!Alas, thou sorrowing Nation, Bereaved — alas for thee!The wail as of a ...
Come, pensive sage, who lovest to dwellIn some retired Lapponian cell,Where, far from noise and riot rude,Besides sequester'd solitude.Come, and ...
Hush! She is dead! Tread gently as the light Foots dim the weary room. Thou shalt behold. Look:--In death's ermine pomp of ...
A Muse, unskill'd in venal praise,Unstain'd with flattery's art;Who loves simplicity of laysBreathed ardent from the heart;While gratitude and joy ...
FLOWER of the foam of the wavesOf the beautiful inland sea, -White as the foam that lavesThe ships of the ...
All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom,The Sun himself must die,Before this mortal shall assumeIts Immortality!I saw a vision in ...
I.Glory unto the gallant boys who stoodAt Wagner, and, unflinching, sought the van;Dealing fierce blows, and shedding precious blood,For homes ...
LIKE gleam of sunshine on the mountain's side,Fair, bright and beautiful, while all beside,Slope, cliff and pinnacle in shadow lieBeneath ...
From carnag'd fields bedrench'd with gore, How long must Pity shrink with pain;Turn, shuddering pale, from shore to shore, And weep her ...
Fair land! of chivalry the old domain,Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain!Though not for thee with classic shores ...
Lonely and still are now thy marble halls,Thou fair Alhambra! there the feast is o'er;And with the murmur of thy ...
LAND of departed fame! whose classic plains Have proudly echo'd to immortal strains; Whose hallow'd soil hath given the great ...
Heroes of elder days! untaught to yield,Who bled for Spain on many an ancient field;Ye, that around the oaken cross ...
As one, who journeys over unknown lands,Ere yet the sun withdraws his western ray,Stops on some mountain's brow, whose site ...
Low in a deep sequestered vale,Whence Alpine heights ascend,A beauteous nymph, in pilgrim garb,Is seen her steps to bend.Her olive ...
ON THE DEATH OF AN AMIABLE AND ACCOMPLISHED YOUNG GENTLEMAN. COULD soundest judgment, tho' in manhood's prime,Could truth or merit ...
The blue jay scuffling in the bushes follows Some hidden purpose, and the gush of birds That spurts across the ...
All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality! I ...
THE LAMP of day, with-ill presaging glare, Dim, cloudy, sank beneath the western wave; Th' inconstant blast howl'd thro' the ...
Close on the margin of a brawling brook That bathes the low dell's bosom, stands a Cot; O'ershadow'd by broad ...
The wine-cup is circling in Almhin's hall, And its Chief, 'mid his heroes reclining, Looks up, with a sigh to ...
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