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 ...
A voice of lamentation From the islands of the Sea!Alas, thou sorrowing Nation, Bereaved — alas for thee!The wail as of a ...
What, wide awake, sweet stranger, wide awake?And laughing coyly at an English sun,And blessing him with smiles for having thaw'dThine ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rise! ye gallant youth of Britain, Gather to your country's call,On your hearts her name is written, Rise to help her, one ...
O rapid days, electric hours, Flashing with all that kindles life,--O shifting scene of suns and showers,-- O melodrame of love and ...
I.Man's inhumanity to Man! Oh hideous tale to tell,—What cheek unblanch'd can calmly scan Those characters of hell?What pen, what poet, dares ...
Lightly blown, and soon to break Like a bubble on the stream,Yet once more, for wonder's sake, Will I woo thee, brilliant ...
"Enough, sad Muse, enough thy downward flight Has cleft with wearied wing the shades of night: Be drest in smiles, forget the ...
Thou lover of the blaze of Mars, Come out with me to-night,For I have found among the stars A name of nobler ...
I.Friend, one last word before we part,—One kindly word from heart to heart:Where'er to distant climes you roam,To seek and ...
The world can do without us: every one Hath every other as his waiting heir; And, though affections be not lacking there,Each ...
Now I have done my work! — which not Jove's ireCan make undone, nor sword, nor time, nor fire.Whene'er that ...
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