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 ...
Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems on Truth (19 Poems)
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 ...
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. VI. The Outcast (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
A walk in the city by day ;— When rural simplicity stopsTo wonder at all that is glittering gay Heap'd in the ...
The Dead Cat. (Patchie: In Memoriam) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Yet — Patchie still lives! — We can hope and believe it,— The poor little cat to good Harry so dear:It ...
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. III. The Quill And The Counter (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
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 ...
The Last Time (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Another year? another year! Who dare depend on other years?The judgment of this world is near, And all its children faint for ...
The Gentleman (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Not alone by generous birth (Greatly though it fashions men),Not by all the wealth of earth, Not by all the talents ten,Not ...
The Workman’s Wife: (A Ballad, By Request, For ‘The British Workman’ Paper) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
O true British goodwife, a word in your earTo help your home-comfort and gladden its cheer,That husband and children and ...
A Last Call At The Palace Of Glass, 1851. (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Lightly blown, and soon to break Like a bubble on the stream,Yet once more, for wonder's sake, Will I woo thee, brilliant ...
The Good And The True (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Nothing lasts that is not good; Nothing stands that is not true:--What a thing misunderstood, What a thought kept out of view!O ...
Aspire (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Higher, higher, ever higher,--Let thy watchword be "Aspire!" Noble Christian youth;Whatsoe'er be God's behest,Try to do that duty best In strength of ...
Cecil’s Choice (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
All-radiant Lady Arabell Glanced scornfully aside,--Alas! for he hath loved her well, In spite of all her pride;Yet coldly to that noble ...
Forty (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Ah, poor youth! in pitiful truth,Thy pride must feel a fall, poor youth!What thou shalt be well have I seen,--Thou ...
Warmth (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Writer, whosoe'er thou art,Speaker, on whatever theme,Write and speak from heart to heart,Truly being what you seem;Thoughts and words alone ...
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 ...
Down With Foreign Priestcraft (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Christian England! where so longFreedom's trumpet, clear and strong,Still has stirr'd the patriot song— Down with foreign priestcraft!England! Truth's own island-nest,Pure ...
Venus. A Reply To Longfellow’s “Mars” (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Thou lover of the blaze of Mars, Come out with me to-night,For I have found among the stars A name of nobler ...
The Dead Dog (Sandy: In Memoriam) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
My Sandy, — poor Sandy,— dear favourite of all, The family friend for these ten years and more,That basked in the ...
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 ...