Liberty – Equality – Fraternity! (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
LIBERTY Liberty! — Who shall be free?—The winds of the air, and the waves of the sea,And the beast in his ...
LIBERTY Liberty! — Who shall be free?—The winds of the air, and the waves of the sea,And the beast in his ...
Whoever I am, wherever my lot, Whatever I happen to be,Contentment and Duty shall hallow the spot That Providence orders for me;No ...
Where shall be found the niche unfill'd,—A spot unclaim'd, a field untill'd?Who may secure a vacant spaceFairly to run and ...
Lottery tickets every day,-- And ever drawn a blank:Yet none the less we pant and pray For prizes in that bank:Morn by ...
O rapid days, electric hours, Flashing with all that kindles life,--O shifting scene of suns and showers,-- O melodrame of love and ...
(Strophe)Poor World! that in wickedness liest Enthrall'd by the powers of ill,And, groaning and travailing, sighest For better and happier still,-- Lo! here ...
O give no more to flagrant Wrong The chances you refuse to Right,Nor let a boon to Vice belong Wherein the virtuous ...
After all said,— how many moreOf shames and sorrows by the score Escape without a touch;After all said, how little hopeWith ...
Yes! welcome, right welcome -- and give me your hand,-- I like not to keep in the cold!If new friends are ...
The waves, the winds of Circumstance! What arm their strength can stem?What struggling mortal has a chance To bind or buffet them?Against ...
The die is cast,-- be satisfied; The chance is past,-- be still;For this, no more Occasion's tide Can waft thee good or ...
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