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 Hope (38 Poems)
Shakspeare. (An Ode For His Three-Hundredth Birthday) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
I.Immortal! risen to thy Rest,Immortal! throned among the Blest,Immortal! long an heir sublimeOf realms outreaching space and time,--How shall we ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Farley Heath (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Many a day have I wiled away Upon hopeful Farley Heath,In its antique soil digging for spoil Of possible treasure beneath;For celts, ...
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 ...
Used Up (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Farewell To England (A Ballad For The Emigrant) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
England, farewell! — not lightly, nor gladly, Now, at the last, do I bid thee farewell!Hope may be smiling, but Memory ...
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 ...
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. IV. The British Slave’s Reply To A Political Economist (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
So! you preach me self-reliance, Emigration,— rights of man?So! you bid me breathe defiance As a freeborn Briton can?Break the fetter, burst ...
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 Convict And The Pauper (A Ballad For Home Governors). (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
O give no more to flagrant Wrong The chances you refuse to Right,Nor let a boon to Vice belong Wherein the virtuous ...
Forty (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Ah, poor youth! in pitiful truth,Thy pride must feel a fall, poor youth!What thou shalt be well have I seen,--Thou ...
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 ...
Down With Foreign Priestcraft (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Christian England! where so longFreedom's trumpet, clear and strong,Still has stirr'd the patriot song— Down with foreign priestcraft!England! Truth's own island-nest,Pure ...
Venus. A Reply To Longfellow’s “Mars” (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Thou lover of the blaze of Mars, Come out with me to-night,For I have found among the stars A name of nobler ...
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 ...
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 ...
Friends In Heaven (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
O Spirits made perfect! How dear will ye be,In the bright happy world, where affections are free!Unfetter'd from all the heart-slavery ...
Advance, Australia! (A Ballad For A New Nation, Embodying Its Christian Heraldry) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
I.Advance, Australia! On, speed on,—Stout old England's brave young son:Advance! set forth that standard on high,The bright "Southern Cross" on ...
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 ...