A Dirge For Wellington (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
A voice of lamentation From the islands of the Sea!Alas, thou sorrowing Nation, Bereaved — alas for thee!The wail as of a ...
Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems on Sons (20 Poems)
On A Bulbous Root (Which Blossomed, After Having Lain For Ages In The Hand Of An Egyptian Mummy) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
What, wide awake, sweet stranger, wide awake?And laughing coyly at an English sun,And blessing him with smiles for having thaw'dThine ...
Ye Thirty Noble Nations (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
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 ...
The New Home (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
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 ...
Post-Letters (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Lottery tickets every day,-- And ever drawn a blank:Yet none the less we pant and pray For prizes in that bank:Morn by ...
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. IX. Our National Defenders (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
All honour to Discipline! — happy the land Whose soldiers and sailors obey,—Whose captains and colonels are strict in command,And guide ...
Farewell To England (A Ballad For The Emigrant) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
England, farewell! — not lightly, nor gladly, Now, at the last, do I bid thee farewell!Hope may be smiling, but Memory ...
Life-Work (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
No man can die, till all his work is done: But who shall say, what work he had to do?—With some, ...
The Song Of Seventy (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
I am not old -- I cannot be old,Though threescore years and tenHave wasted away, like a tale that is ...
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. XII. The Liberator (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
After all said,— how many moreOf shames and sorrows by the score Escape without a touch;After all said, how little hopeWith ...
A Thought In A Thoroughfare (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Surging on in ceaseless shoalsThousands of immortal souls,Wave on wave of restless lifeCrested rough with selfish strife,—What a cavalcade comes ...
The Man About Town (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
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 ...
Never Mind! (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Soul, be strong, whate'er betide,God himself is guard and guide,—With my Father at my side, Never mind!Clouds and darkness hover near,Men's ...
A Voice from the Cloister (extract) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
"Enough, sad Muse, enough thy downward flight Has cleft with wearied wing the shades of night: Be drest in smiles, forget the ...
The Best Robe (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
"Bring forth the best robe!" Was it truly I heard? And is it for me, too -- the best for the worst?O ...
Advance, Australia! (A Ballad For A New Nation, Embodying Its Christian Heraldry) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
I.Advance, Australia! On, speed on,—Stout old England's brave young son:Advance! set forth that standard on high,The bright "Southern Cross" on ...
A Song For Rifle Clubs (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Hurrah for the Rifle! — In days long agoOur fathers were fear'd for the bill and the bow,And Edwards and ...
The Unit (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
The world can do without us: every one Hath every other as his waiting heir; And, though affections be not lacking there,Each ...
Guernsey (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Guernsey! to me and in my partial eyes Thou art a holy and enchanted isle, Where I would linger long, and muse ...
Stone-henge (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
That there were giants in the olden timeThese stones cry out; whether before the Flood(As some have dreamt) in earth's ...