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 Friendship (33 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 ...
Ye Thirty Noble Nations (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Ye Thirty noble Nations Confederate in One!That keep your starry stations Around the Western Sun,—I have a glorious mission, And must obey the ...
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 ...
Labour! (A Ballad For Artisans) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Fair work for fair wages! -- it's all that we ask, An Englishman loves what is fair,We'll never complain of the ...
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, ...
Monsieur D’Alveron. An Incident, Founded On Fact (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Poor Monsieur d'Alveron! I well rememberThe day I visited his ruinous cot,And heard the story of his fallen fortunes.It was ...
Country Life (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
I. Against.Think not thou that fields and flowers,Copses and Arcadian bowers, Grow the crop of Peace :—In this model life of ...
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. II. The Factory Slave (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Pale, and shabby, and looking so ill, Hungry and cold and wet, On a winter's morning going to mill The factory-child I met:All ...
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. XI. Better Barracoons: Or, Profitable Charity (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Men of money, shrewd and skill'd In putting capital to nurse,Ready to pull down streets, or build, If either helps to fill ...
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 ...
Forgive And Forget (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
When streams of unkindness, as bitter as gall, Bubble up from the heart to the tongue,And Meekness is writhing in torment ...
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. V. The Workwoman (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
"The Song of the Shirt,"— O heart-stirring hymn How sternly and terribly trueThe portrait of misery, ghastly and grim, That Bard of ...
To The Union (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Giant aggregate of nations, Glorious Whole of glorious Parts,Unto endless generations Live United, hands and hearts!Be it storm or summer-weather, Peaceful calm, or ...
Cantering In (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
A mindful man, but hearted like a child, Lived near my dwelling; he was frank and glad, Though many sorrows might have ...
The Last Time (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Another year? another year! Who dare depend on other years?The judgment of this world is near, And all its children faint for ...
Bad Luck (A Ballad For The Richer Diggins) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Be it what you will, brother,— worse than what you say,—Try to make the best of things, or beat them as you ...
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, ...
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. XII. The Liberator (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
After all said,— how many moreOf shames and sorrows by the score Escape without a touch;After all said, how little hopeWith ...
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 ...
An Evening Hymn (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Yet once more, the busy dayWith its work hath passed away,Yet once more I seek my bed,As alive among the ...
Circumstance (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
The waves, the winds of Circumstance! What arm their strength can stem?What struggling mortal has a chance To bind or buffet them?Against ...
Dieu Et Mon Droit (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
No fanciful hope, and no cowardly fear Shall ever be lord of my breast,An Englishman gathers his comfort and cheer From Duty ...
Low Spirits (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
It is not Time,-- I joy to see My children growing up;It is not Sin,-- remorse for me Holds out no bitter ...
Light In The Darkness (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Baffled and blind as bats in the day,But cheered and guided well on the way,Morning by morning and year after ...
Cheer Up! (For Music) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Never go gloomily, man with a mind! Hope is a better companion than fear;Providence, ever benignant and kind, Gives with a smile ...
Epilogue. (Half-A-Dozen Ballads About Australia) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
I.Friend, one last word before we part,—One kindly word from heart to heart:Where'er to distant climes you roam,To seek and ...
The Hymn For All Nations: 1851. (Translated Into Thirty Languages) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Glorious God! on Thee we call,Father, Friend, and Judge of all;Holy Saviour, heavenly King,Homage to Thy throne we bring!In the ...