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 ...
Fair work for fair wages! -- it's all that we ask, An Englishman loves what is fair,We'll never complain of the ...
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 ...
What! will they tell us that timely precaution Causes the peril it strives to avoid?Or that true safety is found in ...
O rapid days, electric hours, Flashing with all that kindles life,--O shifting scene of suns and showers,-- O melodrame of love and ...
Every toiler in his toil; Life is Work in Duty's hand, Art and Nature both demandDaily labour, midnight oil:Every workman for his ...
Galloping out on a drizzly day To see the foxhounds meetAnd huntsmen take their reckless way Over the newsown wheat,I came to ...
Be it what you will, brother,— worse than what you say,—Try to make the best of things, or beat them as you ...
Lightly blown, and soon to break Like a bubble on the stream,Yet once more, for wonder's sake, Will I woo thee, brilliant ...
They tell of horrors on another shore, Injustice, thraldom, chains and goads and whips, And human-nature smothered to the lipsIn selfwrung seas ...
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