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 ...
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 ...
Six days in the week do I toil for my bread, And surely should feel like a slave,Except for a Providence ...
A walk in the city by day ;— When rural simplicity stopsTo wonder at all that is glittering gay Heap'd in the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Galloping out on a drizzly day To see the foxhounds meetAnd huntsmen take their reckless way Over the newsown wheat,I came to ...
So! you preach me self-reliance, Emigration,— rights of man?So! you bid me breathe defiance As a freeborn Briton can?Break the fetter, burst ...
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 ...
O cheerful Christmas hearth! Bright with the blazing coals,And echoing clear with children's mirth,Goodwill tow'rds men and peace upon earth, And blessing ...
O give no more to flagrant Wrong The chances you refuse to Right,Nor let a boon to Vice belong Wherein the virtuous ...
After all said,— how many moreOf shames and sorrows by the score Escape without a touch;After all said, how little hopeWith ...
They tell of horrors on another shore, Injustice, thraldom, chains and goads and whips, And human-nature smothered to the lipsIn selfwrung seas ...
Lover of goodness, and friend to the beautiful, Ever go forth with a smile on thy cheek,Knowing that God will prosper ...
Tyrannic Circumstance! whose jealous powerGuards every turn, and watches every hour,With secret influences controlling stillThe conduct, and the spirits, and ...
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