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 ...
A voice of lamentation From the islands of the Sea!Alas, thou sorrowing Nation, Bereaved — alas for thee!The wail as of a ...
A walk in the city by day ;— When rural simplicity stopsTo wonder at all that is glittering gay Heap'd in the ...
Will none befriend that poor dumb brute, Will no man rescue him?--With weaker effort, gasping mute, He strains in every limb;Spare him, ...
Poor Monsieur d'Alveron! I well rememberThe day I visited his ruinous cot,And heard the story of his fallen fortunes.It was ...
Whoever I am, wherever my lot, Whatever I happen to be,Contentment and Duty shall hallow the spot That Providence orders for me;No ...
When streams of unkindness, as bitter as gall, Bubble up from the heart to the tongue,And Meekness is writhing in torment ...
"The Song of the Shirt,"— O heart-stirring hymn How sternly and terribly trueThe portrait of misery, ghastly and grim, That Bard of ...
When, O when, shall the life of a Man Be worth a Man's while to live?When, to this old White-Slavery plan Its ...
A mindful man, but hearted like a child, Lived near my dwelling; he was frank and glad, Though many sorrows might have ...
Warm heart, soft heart, generous and gentle, Full of sweet affections, sympathies, and loves,--How thou transcendest all the merely mental, How dost ...
I.With six defeats half mad, The hunted Bruce in his lairAt Rachrin's Isle, all sullen and sad, Lion-like brooded there:"And must I ...
I am not old -- I cannot be old,Though threescore years and tenHave wasted away, like a tale that is ...
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 ...
World of sorrow, care, and change, Even to myself I seem,As adown thy vale I range, Wandering in a dream:All things are ...
O places, and faces, and things that are past,O changes on changes that followed so fast,O life, full of care, ...
O true British goodwife, a word in your earTo help your home-comfort and gladden its cheer,That husband and children and ...
O nation, Christian nation, Lift high the hymn of praiseThe God of our Salvation Is love in all His ways:He blesseth us, ...
A thrilling touch of Nature Amid the battle-brunt,A gleam of angel-feature On Moloch's horrid front,A beauty and a glory To gild the soldier's ...
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 ...
"Enough, sad Muse, enough thy downward flight Has cleft with wearied wing the shades of night: Be drest in smiles, forget the ...
Life without love! -- Ah, what a wail goes up From this poor world of manifold distress,-- What thousands drink the dregs ...
All's for the best! be sanguine and cheerful, Trouble and Sorrow are friends in disguise,Nothing but Folly goes faithless and fearful, Courage ...
Lover of goodness, and friend to the beautiful, Ever go forth with a smile on thy cheek,Knowing that God will prosper ...
Far away, far away,The emigrant ship must sail to-day: Cruel ship,— to look so gayBearing the exiles far away. Sad and sore, ...
It is not Time,-- I joy to see My children growing up;It is not Sin,-- remorse for me Holds out no bitter ...
Hush! how heavily droops the night In sultry silence, calm as death;Gloomy and hot, and yet no light, Save where the glow-worm ...
Never go gloomily, man with a mind! Hope is a better companion than fear;Providence, ever benignant and kind, Gives with a smile ...
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