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 Joy & Excitement (36 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
One Among The Million (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
I.One among the million, fainting on the way,Stricken by the heat and the burden of the day,Looked to me for ...
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 ...
Balm (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Patience, yet one little hour,Pale, unloved, uncourted flower, Seeing not the sun;Patience,-- heart of depth and duty,Yearning for the smiles of ...
Life-Work (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
No man can die, till all his work is done: But who shall say, what work he had to do?—With some, ...
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 ...
Harvest Hymns (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
O nation, Christian nation, Lift high the hymn of praiseThe God of our Salvation Is love in all His ways:He blesseth us, ...
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 ...
Tangley Pond (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
All on a happy summer's day When the air is warm and still,And thundery clouds are louring greyOver the landscape green ...
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 ...
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 ...
Activity (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Open the casement, and up with the Sun!His gallant journey is just begun;Over the hills his chariot is roll'd,Banner'd with ...
Jireh-Jehovah (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
O trials and troubles and losses in life, What are ye but simples to strengthen my soul?And worry and riot, the ...
All’s Right (For Music) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
O never despair at the troubles of life, All's right!In the midst of anxiety, peril, and strife! All's right!The cheerful philosophy never ...
India Reposing (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Be glad, thou tranquil Hindostan, That God such mercy gives,—That tribe with tribe, and man with man In friendly concord lives!Rejoice, for ...
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 ...
The Early Gallop (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
At five on a dewy morning, Before the blazing day,To be up and off on a high-mettled horse,All care and danger ...
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 ...
Each One Of Us (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
I.Man! weak insect, poor and proud,Atom, lost amid the crowd,Ever pushing on through lifeBuffeted by sinful strife,—Man! mere drop of ...