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 ...
What, wide awake, sweet stranger, wide awake?And laughing coyly at an English sun,And blessing him with smiles for having thaw'dThine ...
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 ...
Galloping out on a drizzly day To see the foxhounds meetAnd huntsmen take their reckless way Over the newsown wheat,I came to ...
I am not old -- I cannot be old,Though threescore years and tenHave wasted away, like a tale that is ...
Not alone by generous birth (Greatly though it fashions men),Not by all the wealth of earth, Not by all the talents ten,Not ...
World of sorrow, care, and change, Even to myself I seem,As adown thy vale I range, Wandering in a dream:All things are ...
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 ...
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 ...
In days long ago, when old England was young,Her bows were the toughest that ever were strung,And fearless and frank ...
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 ...
God save our gracious Queen,Long live our noble Queen, God save the Queen!Send her victoriousHappy and gloriousLong to reign over us, God ...
Ah, poor youth! in pitiful truth,Thy pride must feel a fall, poor youth!What thou shalt be well have I seen,--Thou ...
"Enough, sad Muse, enough thy downward flight Has cleft with wearied wing the shades of night: Be drest in smiles, forget the ...
Thou lover of the blaze of Mars, Come out with me to-night,For I have found among the stars A name of nobler ...
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 ...
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 ...
What a gloom and what a chill Hang about old haunts of ours,--Where, at childhood's wayward will, Long ago we gathered flowers;Where, ...
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