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 ...
LIBERTY Liberty! — Who shall be free?—The winds of the air, and the waves of the sea,And the beast in his ...
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 ...
O boys and men of British mould, With mother's milk within youA simple word for young and old, A word to warn ...
I. Against.Think not thou that fields and flowers,Copses and Arcadian bowers, Grow the crop of Peace :—In this model life of ...
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 ...
I.One among the million, fainting on the way,Stricken by the heat and the burden of the day,Looked to me for ...
Lottery tickets every day,-- And ever drawn a blank:Yet none the less we pant and pray For prizes in that bank:Morn by ...
Men of money, shrewd and skill'd In putting capital to nurse,Ready to pull down streets, or build, If either helps to fill ...
What! will they tell us that timely precaution Causes the peril it strives to avoid?Or that true safety is found in ...
Galloping out on a drizzly day To see the foxhounds meetAnd huntsmen take their reckless way Over the newsown wheat,I came to ...
I.Ever babbling, ever bubbling, Bright as light and calmly clear,Cure for every trial troubling, Solace ever new and near, Fons Parnassi! free and ...
Surging on in ceaseless shoalsThousands of immortal souls,Wave on wave of restless lifeCrested rough with selfish strife,—What a cavalcade comes ...
Evil-eyed loiterer, pilgrim of fashion, Sunless and hard is thy frost-bitten heart;Scoffing at nature's affection and passion, Till thou hast made the ...
Ah, poor youth! in pitiful truth,Thy pride must feel a fall, poor youth!What thou shalt be well have I seen,--Thou ...
Ah! Life,-- so purposeless yet steep'd in self, I do confess thee, yea, I do condemn thee,So pack'd with pleasure, or ...
The world is dying, its heart is cold, And well-nigh frozen dead,--A sorrowful thing it is to grow old, With all the ...
The die is cast,-- be satisfied; The chance is past,-- be still;For this, no more Occasion's tide Can waft thee good or ...
How saidst thou? — Pleasure: why, my life is pleasure: My days are pleasantness, my nights are peace: I drink of joys ...
Calm in well-deserving, Happy at the heart, Duty does his partSteadfast and unswerving.How should it affect him If some mocking-birds Clamour at his words,Or ...
A book of many thoughts in mingled measures;Songs of my Heart, attuned through many a yearFrom time to time a ...
Light as flakes of falling snow Drop the silent-footed hours;And the days,— they come and go,And the years — we scarcely ...
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