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• Hope

  Hope is the Sailor
    On every sea,—

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 39 lines
• Estrada

  Esta estrada onde moro, entre duas voltas do caminho,
  Interessa mais que uma avenida urbana.

  by Manuel Bandeira 14 lines
• A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. II. The Factory Slave

    Pale, and shabby, and looking so ill,
        Hungry and cold and wet,

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 62 lines
• A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. 1. The Field Serf.

  Galloping out on a drizzly day
    To see the foxhounds meet

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 53 lines
• Fact

  The die is cast,-- be satisfied;
    The chance is past,-- be still;

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 27 lines
• A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. Sonnets Introductory

  They tell of horrors on another shore,
        Injustice, thraldom, chains and goads and whips,

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 29 lines
• The Happy Man

  A man of no regrets
    He goes his sunny way,

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 26 lines
• Time

  Time is the feather'd thing,
          And, whilst I praise

  by Jasper Mayne 41 lines
• Thought-Crystals

  Plunged in my brain, fermenting thick and warm,
    Simmer deep thoughts; and shape themselves apace,

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 14 lines
• Retrospect

  How many years are fled,—
  How many friends are dead:

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 41 lines
• Forgive And Forget

  When streams of unkindness, as bitter as gall,
    Bubble up from the heart to the tongue,

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 53 lines
• Each One Of Us

  Man! weak insect, poor and proud,
  Atom, lost amid the crowd,

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 35 lines
• A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. III. The Quill And The Counter

  When, O when, shall the life of a Man
    Be worth a Man's while to live?

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 53 lines
• Eheu! Fugaces

  The flying years! the flying years!
    How rapidly they wing away,—

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 14 lines
• My Own Place

  Whoever I am, wherever my lot,
    Whatever I happen to be,

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 71 lines
• Selfishness

  How little and how lightly
    We care for one another!

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 26 lines
• The Good And The True

  Nothing lasts that is not good;
    Nothing stands that is not true:--

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 44 lines
• The Volunteer Organist

  The preacher in the village church one Sunday morning said:
  Our organist is ill today, will someone play instead?

  by William B Gray 23 lines
• Children

  Sometimes our welcome has no tongue;
      Children are often in the way.

  by Bert Leston Taylor 26 lines
• Genius And Friends

  When the star of good fortune is rising,
    And seems to the zenith to soar,

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 20 lines
• Individuality

  Measure not thyself with others,—
    Heed the work thou hast to do;

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 44 lines
• The Emigrant Ship

      Far away, far away,
  The emigrant ship must sail to-day:

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 34 lines
• Never Mind!

  Soul, be strong, whate'er betide,
  God himself is guard and guide,—

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 34 lines
• Envy

  White-lipp'd sneerer, well I wot
    How you loathe the great and wise,

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 26 lines
• To a Friend Estranged From Me

  Now goes under, and I watch it go under, the sun
  That will not rise again.

  by Edna St. Vincent Millay 24 lines
• Reading Pornography in Old Age

  Unbridled licentiousness with no holds barred,
  Immediate and mutual lust, satisfiable

  by Howard Nemerov 28 lines
• Charity

  Fair Charity, thou rarest, best, and brightest!
    Who would not gladly hide thee in his heart,

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 53 lines
• A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. X. Slop-Jobbing

  Surely, to labour for what is not bread,—
  To earn for an egg a stone instead,—

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 48 lines
• A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. IX. Our National Defenders

  All honour to Discipline! — happy the land
      Whose soldiers and sailors obey,—

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 53 lines
• A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. IV. The British Slave's Reply To A Political Economist

  So! you preach me self-reliance,
    Emigration,— rights of man?

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 53 lines

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