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 ...
I.All joy to thee, my country, and my pride!Be the glad muse my patriot lay to guide; Suggest the thought, and ...
LIBERTY Liberty! — Who shall be free?—The winds of the air, and the waves of the sea,And the beast in his ...
A voice of lamentation From the islands of the Sea!Alas, thou sorrowing Nation, Bereaved — alas for thee!The wail as of a ...
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 ...
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 ...
Six days in the week do I toil for my bread, And surely should feel like a slave,Except for a Providence ...
A walk in the city by day ;— When rural simplicity stopsTo wonder at all that is glittering gay Heap'd in the ...
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 ...
What! will they tell us that timely precaution Causes the peril it strives to avoid?Or that true safety is found in ...
"The Song of the Shirt,"— O heart-stirring hymn How sternly and terribly trueThe portrait of misery, ghastly and grim, That Bard of ...
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 ...
Another year? another year! Who dare depend on other years?The judgment of this world is near, And all its children faint for ...
Not alone by generous birth (Greatly though it fashions men),Not by all the wealth of earth, Not by all the talents ten,Not ...
I.How glorious is thy calling, My happy Fatherland,While all the thrones are falling In righteousness to stand!Amid the earthquakes heaving thus To rest ...
O true British goodwife, a word in your earTo help your home-comfort and gladden its cheer,That husband and children and ...
Queen of the South! which the mighty Pacific Claims for its Britain in ages to be,Bright with fair visions and hopes ...
Lightly blown, and soon to break Like a bubble on the stream,Yet once more, for wonder's sake, Will I woo thee, brilliant ...
God save our gracious Queen,Long live our noble Queen, God save the Queen!Send her victoriousHappy and gloriousLong to reign over us, God ...
Ah, poor youth! in pitiful truth,Thy pride must feel a fall, poor youth!What thou shalt be well have I seen,--Thou ...
Thou lover of the blaze of Mars, Come out with me to-night,For I have found among the stars A name of nobler ...
Thou canst not help the thousand things That might be better done;Corruption its black shadow flings On all beneath the sun;Nor thought ...
The laurel crown! for duty done,For good achieved, and honours won,For all of natural gift, or art,That thrills and fills ...
I.Man! weak insect, poor and proud,Atom, lost amid the crowd,Ever pushing on through lifeBuffeted by sinful strife,—Man! mere drop of ...
Baffled and blind as bats in the day,But cheered and guided well on the way,Morning by morning and year after ...
Monarch of millions, yet a gentle maid, O, fair and young,— yet dignified and sage, Most glorious Queen, yet in thy glory ...
Never again,— till earth casts out her dead, And teeming ocean yields her recued prey,—A sight so full of hope, delight, ...
Queen of the Isles, blue ocean's choicest pearl, We hail thy day of glory! — unto thee Admiring thousands bend the duteous ...
The die is cast,-- be satisfied; The chance is past,-- be still;For this, no more Occasion's tide Can waft thee good or ...
Glorious God! on Thee we call,Father, Friend, and Judge of all;Holy Saviour, heavenly King,Homage to Thy throne we bring!In the ...
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