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 ...
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 ...
I.Beautiful Alice, serene little saint, My treasure!— O better than mine,—What mind can imagine, or eloquence paint Thy gladness and glory divine?A ...
Many a day have I wiled away Upon hopeful Farley Heath,In its antique soil digging for spoil Of possible treasure beneath;For celts, ...
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 ...
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 ...
I.One among the million, fainting on the way,Stricken by the heat and the burden of the day,Looked to me for ...
All honour to Discipline! — happy the land Whose soldiers and sailors obey,—Whose captains and colonels are strict in command,And guide ...
"The Song of the Shirt,"— O heart-stirring hymn How sternly and terribly trueThe portrait of misery, ghastly and grim, That Bard of ...
A mindful man, but hearted like a child, Lived near my dwelling; he was frank and glad, Though many sorrows might have ...
Warm heart, soft heart, generous and gentle, Full of sweet affections, sympathies, and loves,--How thou transcendest all the merely mental, How dost ...
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 true British goodwife, a word in your earTo help your home-comfort and gladden its cheer,That husband and children and ...
Evil-eyed loiterer, pilgrim of fashion, Sunless and hard is thy frost-bitten heart;Scoffing at nature's affection and passion, Till thou hast made the ...
Higher, higher, ever higher,--Let thy watchword be "Aspire!" Noble Christian youth;Whatsoe'er be God's behest,Try to do that duty best In strength of ...
All on a happy summer's day When the air is warm and still,And thundery clouds are louring greyOver the landscape green ...
My Sandy, — poor Sandy,— dear favourite of all, The family friend for these ten years and more,That basked in the ...
I.My pretty one beneath the sod, My pretty one beyond the sky,My darling gone to be with God, And nevermore to moan ...
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 ...
O thousands, who have never found your mates, But pine in secret for their love unknown, O thousands, whom perverse and bitter ...
How saidst thou? — Pleasure: why, my life is pleasure: My days are pleasantness, my nights are peace: I drink of joys ...
Calm in well-deserving, Happy at the heart, Duty does his partSteadfast and unswerving.How should it affect him If some mocking-birds Clamour at his words,Or ...
The world can do without us: every one Hath every other as his waiting heir; And, though affections be not lacking there,Each ...
O the day when Somebody, Long ago, long ago,Never asking reasons why,Simply loved Another soThat the hours sunny brightTripp'd along in ...
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