My Ode And Three Sonnets (As First Published On The Coronation Of Queen Victoria, June 28, 1838) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
I.All joy to thee, my country, and my pride!Be the glad muse my patriot lay to guide; Suggest the thought, and ...
Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems on Faces (21 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
To Brother Jonathan (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Ho! Brother, I'm a Britisher, A chip of heart of oak,That wouldn't warp or swerve or stir From what I thought or ...
Cruelty (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Will none befriend that poor dumb brute, Will no man rescue him?--With weaker effort, gasping mute, He strains in every limb;Spare him, ...
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 ...
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. VII. The Servant-Of-All-Work (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Drudgery all the day, Drudgery half the night,—Scolded about and worried away,Begrudged of sleep, and victuals and pay,And always in dread ...
The Lost Arctic (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Poor Arctic! once awhile my floating home Full of kind faces, my right royal yacht, Alas! how swift and terrible a lotHas ...
Anniversaries (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
O places, and faces, and things that are past,O changes on changes that followed so fast,O life, full of care, ...
My Umbrella (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
"Valued companion of my expeditions, Wanderings, and my street perambulations, What can be more deserving of my praises Than my umbrella? "Under thine ample ...
A Thought In A Thoroughfare (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Surging on in ceaseless shoalsThousands of immortal souls,Wave on wave of restless lifeCrested rough with selfish strife,—What a cavalcade comes ...
Welcome! (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Yes! welcome, right welcome -- and give me your hand,-- I like not to keep in the cold!If new friends are ...
A Voice from the Cloister (extract) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
"Enough, sad Muse, enough thy downward flight Has cleft with wearied wing the shades of night: Be drest in smiles, forget the ...
Defence Not Defiance (A Rifle Song) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Nearer the muttering thunders roll, Blacker and heavier frowns the sky,—Yet our dauntless English soul Faces the storm with a steady eye;Hands ...
Blucher’s “Forwards!” (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Bravo! brave old Teuton heart, Noble "Marshal Forwards!"Bravo! every better part,--Nature, Providence, and Art,-- All are shouting Forwards;If we gain, to gain ...
England’s Heart (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
England's heart! Oh never fear The sturdy good old stock;Nothing's false or hollow here, But solid as a rock:England's heart is sound ...
Infant Christ, With Flowers (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Yes,— I can fancy, in the spring Of childhood's sunny hours,That Nature's infant Priest and King Loved to gaze on flowers;For lightly, ...
Four Extracts From “Geraldine” II. Early Morning (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
How fresh and fair is morn! The dew-beads, dropping bright,Each humble flower adorn With coronets bedight,And jewel the rough thorn With tiny globes ...
His Honour In Salvation (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
O marvel! that All-holy God, The Lord,The glorious King by heaven and earth adored,Monarch of those bright million worlds above,And ...
On Rouen (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
"Yes, proud Cathedral, ages pass'd away While generations lived their little day,-- France has been deluged with her patriots' blood By traitors to ...
Long Ago (For Music) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
What a gloom and what a chill Hang about old haunts of ours,--Where, at childhood's wayward will, Long ago we gathered flowers;Where, ...