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 ...
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 ...
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 Confederate in One!That keep your starry stations Around the Western Sun,—I have a glorious mission, And must obey the ...
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 ...
A walk in the city by day ;— When rural simplicity stopsTo wonder at all that is glittering gay Heap'd in the ...
O boys and men of British mould, With mother's milk within youA simple word for young and old, A word to warn ...
Will none befriend that poor dumb brute, Will no man rescue him?--With weaker effort, gasping mute, He strains in every limb;Spare him, ...
Drudgery all the day, Drudgery half the night,—Scolded about and worried away,Begrudged of sleep, and victuals and pay,And always in dread ...
Englishmen up! make ready your rifles! Who can tell now what a day may bring forth?Patch up all quarrels, and stick ...
Lottery tickets every day,-- And ever drawn a blank:Yet none the less we pant and pray For prizes in that bank:Morn by ...
O rapid days, electric hours, Flashing with all that kindles life,--O shifting scene of suns and showers,-- O melodrame of love and ...
World! what a wonder is this, Grandly and simply sublime,--All the Atlantic abyss Leapt in a nothing of time!Even the steeds of ...
Another year? another year! Who dare depend on other years?The judgment of this world is near, And all its children faint for ...
(Strophe)Poor World! that in wickedness liest Enthrall'd by the powers of ill,And, groaning and travailing, sighest For better and happier still,-- Lo! here ...
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 ...
Queen of the South! which the mighty Pacific Claims for its Britain in ages to be,Bright with fair visions and hopes ...
Lightly blown, and soon to break Like a bubble on the stream,Yet once more, for wonder's sake, Will I woo thee, brilliant ...
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 ...
In days long ago, when old England was young,Her bows were the toughest that ever were strung,And fearless and frank ...
Nearer the muttering thunders roll, Blacker and heavier frowns the sky,—Yet our dauntless English soul Faces the storm with a steady eye;Hands ...
England's heart! Oh never fear The sturdy good old stock;Nothing's false or hollow here, But solid as a rock:England's heart is sound ...
O Spirits made perfect! How dear will ye be,In the bright happy world, where affections are free!Unfetter'd from all the heart-slavery ...
A poor little separate star Each in his orbit rolls,--Yet few of us heed what units we are Among the millions of ...
The world is dying, its heart is cold, And well-nigh frozen dead,--A sorrowful thing it is to grow old, With all the ...
Rejoice, O Land! our golden Land! Be glad, our glorious clime!We are quit of the curse of the convict-band, We are free ...
How little and how lightly We care for one another!How seldom and how slightly Consider each a brother!For all the world is ...
Calm in well-deserving, Happy at the heart, Duty does his partSteadfast and unswerving.How should it affect him If some mocking-birds Clamour at his words,Or ...
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