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 ...
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 ...
Will none befriend that poor dumb brute, Will no man rescue him?--With weaker effort, gasping mute, He strains in every limb;Spare him, ...
I.One among the million, fainting on the way,Stricken by the heat and the burden of the day,Looked to me for ...
Galloping out on a drizzly day To see the foxhounds meetAnd huntsmen take their reckless way Over the newsown wheat,I came to ...
"Enough, sad Muse, enough thy downward flight Has cleft with wearied wing the shades of night: Be drest in smiles, forget the ...
"Bring forth the best robe!" Was it truly I heard? And is it for me, too -- the best for the worst?O ...
Bravo! brave old Teuton heart, Noble "Marshal Forwards!"Bravo! every better part,--Nature, Providence, and Art,-- All are shouting Forwards;If we gain, to gain ...
A poor little separate star Each in his orbit rolls,--Yet few of us heed what units we are Among the millions of ...
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 ...
Not in self-seeking doth the Poet draw From his own wells, and analyse his heart; All men in all men bear a ...
"You bid me write the story of my life, And draw what secrets in my memory dwell From the dried fountains of ...
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