Mercy To Animals (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
O boys and men of British mould, With mother's milk within youA simple word for young and old, A word to warn ...
O boys and men of British mould, With mother's milk within youA simple word for young and old, A word to warn ...
Would you a favrite novel make,Try hard your readers heart to breakFor who is pleasd, if not tormented?(Novels for that ...
ALL grim and soiled and brown with tan,I saw a Strong One, in his wrath,Smiting the godless shrines of manAlong ...
"Yet Hope was once my parasite,"And flattered, and revelled, and ruined."Thou ask'st, my Friend, why starts th' unbidden tear, Why from ...
O THOU, the best of brothers and of friends!Say, who but thee could wake the sleeping lyre?Fann'd by thy breath ...
The battle-cry is sounding loud, a bugle calls to arm,The hills and dales are clouded o'er, troops gather in alarm;With ...
READ AT THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARYIs it a weanling's weakness for the pastThat in the stormy, rebel-breeding town,Swept clean of ...
IF I shall ever win the home in heavenFor whose sweet rest I humbly hope and pray,In the great company ...
Once more to the breach for the land of the West!And a leader we give of our bravest and best, Of ...
I Left the city to the north and walkedAgainst a southwest wind; the hurtling rainShowered the empty streets in noisy ...
ON HER SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY, JUNE 14, 1882I. AT THE SUMMITSISTER, we bid you welcome,--we who standOn the high table-land;We who ...
Where Time the measure of his hoursBy changeful bud and blossom keeps,And, like a young bride crowned with flowers,Fair Shiraz ...
Good ladies, you that have your pleasure in exile, Step in your foot, come take a place, and mourn with me ...
Some die too late and some too soon,At early morning, heat of noon,Or the chill evening twilight. Thou,Whom the rich ...
"WHY urge the long, unequal fight,Since Truth has fallen in the street,Or lift anew the trampled light,Quenched by the heedless ...
Twice in her season of decayThe fallen Church hath felt Elijah's eye Dart from the wild its piercing ray:Not keener burns, ...
You hold me now completely in your hands.My heart beats like a frightened little bird'sAgainst your palm. Take heed! You ...
The clouds that wrap the setting sun When Autumn's softest gleams are ending,Where all bright hues together run In sweet confusion blending: ...
Messrs. Editors,As you have inserted my Cradle Piece so handsomely, I follow it by a BIRTH-DAY INVITATION, written some months ...
Ye many twinkling stars, who yet do holdYour brilliant places in the sable vaultOf night's dominions!—Planets, and central orbsOf other ...
Awm havin a smook bi misel, Net a soul here to spaik a word to,Awve noa gossip to hear nor to ...
THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD is the wisdom of man- This is the end of Being, wisdom; this Of wisdom, action; and of ...
A hundred times the bells of Brown Have rung to sleep the idle summers,And still to-day clangs clamoring down A greeting to ...
O HAPPINESS! where art thou to be found?What bow'r is blest with thy perpetual gleam?From court, from cot, ev'n while ...
Air — "Perhaps" Some enterprising people, In our cities and towns,Have gone to organizing clubs Of men that's fallen down;In estimation fallen low ...
Through the waning hours of moments Of the slowly dying year,I sat watching, watching, waiting For the New Dawn to appear.While the ...
A hundred years! The very phraseUnsepultures the million'd dead;Three generations in that space,Ghosts of the past, have breathed and fled.Time ...
Who is the maid with silken hair By clear Maine Water roaming?For the fairy Queen is not so fair As she in ...
LONG years--you say--you had a quest,You sought a blossom fine and sweetAnd perfect, that your soul might greetTo win and ...
The day is closing dark and cold,With roaring blast and sleety showers;And through the dusk the lilacs wearThe bloom of ...
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