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 Man (86 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ye Thirty Noble Nations (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Ye Thirty noble Nations Confederate in One!That keep your starry stations Around the Western Sun,—I have a glorious mission, And must obey the ...
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 ...
The Sabbath. (A Ballad For The Labourer) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Six days in the week do I toil for my bread, And surely should feel like a slave,Except for a Providence ...
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. VI. The Outcast (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
A walk in the city by day ;— When rural simplicity stopsTo wonder at all that is glittering gay Heap'd in 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 ...
Cruelty (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Will none befriend that poor dumb brute, Will no man rescue him?--With weaker effort, gasping mute, He strains in every limb;Spare him, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Freedom (In Alcaics.) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Rich And Poor (A Ballad For Union) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
O ladies, lords, and gentlemen, Attend to what I say,For well I wot you'll like it when You listen to my lay;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 ...
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 ...
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. VII. The Servant-Of-All-Work (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Drudgery all the day, Drudgery half the night,—Scolded about and worried away,Begrudged of sleep, and victuals and pay,And always in dread ...
Arm! The First Rifle Ballad, January, 1852 (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Englishmen up! make ready your rifles! Who can tell now what a day may bring forth?Patch up all quarrels, and stick ...
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 ...
Reply, To Sundry Who Object To “Arm.” (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
What! will they tell us that timely precaution Causes the peril it strives to avoid?Or that true safety is found in ...
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. XI. Better Barracoons: Or, Profitable Charity (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Men of money, shrewd and skill'd In putting capital to nurse,Ready to pull down streets, or build, If either helps to fill ...
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. IX. Our National Defenders (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
All honour to Discipline! — happy the land Whose soldiers and sailors obey,—Whose captains and colonels are strict in command,And guide ...
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 ...
Forgive And Forget (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
When streams of unkindness, as bitter as gall, Bubble up from the heart to the tongue,And Meekness is writhing in torment ...
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 ...
Bond Or Free? A Double Thought (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Alone, and unwitting, we spring into birthTo battle the battle of life upon earth;Alone, and unwilling, we drop from the ...