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 ...
Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems on Heaven (31 Poems)
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 ...
On A Bulbous Root (Which Blossomed, After Having Lain For Ages In The Hand Of An Egyptian Mummy) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
What, wide awake, sweet stranger, wide awake?And laughing coyly at an English sun,And blessing him with smiles for having thaw'dThine ...
The Sabbath. (A Ballad For The Labourer) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Six days in the week do I toil for my bread, And surely should feel like a slave,Except for a Providence ...
Mercy To Animals (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
O boys and men of British mould, With mother's milk within youA simple word for young and old, A word to warn ...
Alice (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Post-Letters (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Lottery tickets every day,-- And ever drawn a blank:Yet none the less we pant and pray For prizes in that bank:Morn by ...
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 ...
Beetles (A Few Verses, For Vernon Wollaston) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Every toiler in his toil; Life is Work in Duty's hand, Art and Nature both demandDaily labour, midnight oil:Every workman for his ...
The Dead Cat. (Patchie: In Memoriam) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Yet — Patchie still lives! — We can hope and believe it,— The poor little cat to good Harry so dear:It ...
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. III. The Quill And The Counter (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
When, O when, shall the life of a Man Be worth a Man's while to live?When, to this old White-Slavery plan Its ...
The Atlantic Telegraph (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
World! what a wonder is this, Grandly and simply sublime,--All the Atlantic abyss Leapt in a nothing of time!Even the steeds of ...
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. 1. The Field Serf. (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Galloping out on a drizzly day To see the foxhounds meetAnd huntsmen take their reckless way Over the newsown wheat,I came to ...
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 ...
Once More. A Lesson From The Bruce’s Spider (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
I.With six defeats half mad, The hunted Bruce in his lairAt Rachrin's Isle, all sullen and sad, Lion-like brooded there:"And must I ...
The Gentleman (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Not alone by generous birth (Greatly though it fashions men),Not by all the wealth of earth, Not by all the talents ten,Not ...
The Mingled Cup (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
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 ...
The Conquerors At Metz (A Christian Incident) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
A thrilling touch of Nature Amid the battle-brunt,A gleam of angel-feature On Moloch's horrid front,A beauty and a glory To gild the soldier's ...
The Mother’s Lament (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
My own little darling -- dead!The dove of my happiness fled! Just Heaven, forgive, But let me not liveNow my poor babe ...
The Man About Town (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
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 ...
Never Mind! (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Soul, be strong, whate'er betide,God himself is guard and guide,—With my Father at my side, Never mind!Clouds and darkness hover near,Men's ...
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 ...
Griefs Unspoken (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Life without love! -- Ah, what a wail goes up From this poor world of manifold distress,-- What thousands drink the dregs ...
All’s For The Best! (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
All's for the best! be sanguine and cheerful, Trouble and Sorrow are friends in disguise,Nothing but Folly goes faithless and fearful, Courage ...
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 ...
A Common Sorrow (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
O thousands, who have never found your mates, But pine in secret for their love unknown, O thousands, whom perverse and bitter ...
Rule, Britannia! (Adapted To These Times) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
I.When Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose to quell the pride of Rome,This was the spirit of the land Resounding from each ...
A Word Of Wisdom (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Make the best of all things, As thy lot is cast?Whatsoe'er we call things All is well at last,If meanwhile, in cheerful ...
The Unit (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
The world can do without us: every one Hath every other as his waiting heir; And, though affections be not lacking there,Each ...