The New Home (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Pent the wynds and closes narrow, Breathing pestilential air,Crush'd beneath oppression's harrow, Faint with famine, bow'd with care,—Gaunt Affliction's sons and daughters! Why ...
Pent the wynds and closes narrow, Breathing pestilential air,Crush'd beneath oppression's harrow, Faint with famine, bow'd with care,—Gaunt Affliction's sons and daughters! Why ...
Whoever I am, wherever my lot, Whatever I happen to be,Contentment and Duty shall hallow the spot That Providence orders for me;No ...
Bulwark of England, God-given Liberty!Name much malign'd, yet noble and glorious, How rarely the masses who claim thee Judge as they ought ...
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 ...
Englishmen up! make ready your rifles! Who can tell now what a day may bring forth?Patch up all quarrels, and stick ...
Be it what you will, brother,— worse than what you say,—Try to make the best of things, or beat them as you ...
Surely, to labour for what is not bread,—To earn for an egg a stone instead,— Cheap work, with victuals so dear;Tho' ...
Yes! welcome, right welcome -- and give me your hand,-- I like not to keep in the cold!If new friends are ...
Nearer the muttering thunders roll, Blacker and heavier frowns the sky,—Yet our dauntless English soul Faces the storm with a steady eye;Hands ...
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 ...
No fanciful hope, and no cowardly fear Shall ever be lord of my breast,An Englishman gathers his comfort and cheer From Duty ...
"Three friends once, in the course of conversation, Touch'd upon honesty: 'No virtue better,' Says Dick, quite lost in sweet self-admiration, 'I'm sure ...
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 ...
Honest fellow, sore beset, Vext by troubles quick and keen,Thankfully consider yet "How much worse it might have been:"Worthily thy faults deserve More ...
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