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 ...
I.All joy to thee, my country, and my pride!Be the glad muse my patriot lay to guide; Suggest the thought, and ...
Fair work for fair wages! -- it's all that we ask, An Englishman loves what is fair,We'll never complain of the ...
Six days in the week do I toil for my bread, And surely should feel like a slave,Except for a Providence ...
Poor Monsieur d'Alveron! I well rememberThe day I visited his ruinous cot,And heard the story of his fallen fortunes.It was ...
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 ...
O ladies, lords, and gentlemen, Attend to what I say,For well I wot you'll like it when You listen to my lay;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 ...
England, farewell! — not lightly, nor gladly, Now, at the last, do I bid thee farewell!Hope may be smiling, but Memory ...
No man can die, till all his work is done: But who shall say, what work he had to do?—With some, ...
Be it what you will, brother,— worse than what you say,—Try to make the best of things, or beat them as you ...
I.Man's cruel baseness to his beast! —Poor uncomplaining brute,Its wrongs are innocent at least, And all its sorrows mute:They cannot have deserved ...
O cheerful Christmas hearth! Bright with the blazing coals,And echoing clear with children's mirth,Goodwill tow'rds men and peace upon earth, And blessing ...
Happier under other skies, --So dreams man--Happier, link'd with other ties,Better, worthier, and more wise Were Life's plan:Anyhow but as things are, --So ...
O give no more to flagrant Wrong The chances you refuse to Right,Nor let a boon to Vice belong Wherein the virtuous ...
Wisely for us within night's sable veilGod hides the future; and, if men turn pale For dread distrusting, laughs their fear ...
Give it only time enough, Every thing shall find its place; Every creature wins its race, Though the course be rough.All is not ...
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 ...
All's for the best! be sanguine and cheerful, Trouble and Sorrow are friends in disguise,Nothing but Folly goes faithless and fearful, Courage ...
It is not Time,-- I joy to see My children growing up;It is not Sin,-- remorse for me Holds out no bitter ...
Never go gloomily, man with a mind! Hope is a better companion than fear;Providence, ever benignant and kind, Gives with a smile ...
Luck, boys, luck! — a nugget of goldBig as my fist in the blest black mould!Luck! — a gallon of ...
Duty! shorn of which the wisest And the best were little worth,How with dignity thou risest O'er the littleness of earth:How thou ...
When the star of good fortune is rising, And seems to the zenith to soar,How tenderly friends will be prizing The beauties ...
"Yes, proud Cathedral, ages pass'd away While generations lived their little day,-- France has been deluged with her patriots' blood By traitors to ...
The flying years! the flying years! How rapidly they wing away,—With all their covey'd hopes and fears, A mingled flock of grave ...
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