Poems about Life

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Cheer Up! (For Music)

Never go gloomily, man with a mind!
Hope is a better companion than fear;

by Martin Farquhar Tupper 19 lines
Circumstance

The waves, the winds of Circumstance!
What arm their strength can stem?

by Martin Farquhar Tupper 35 lines
The Man About Town

Evil-eyed loiterer, pilgrim of fashion,
Sunless and hard is thy frost-bitten heart;

by Martin Farquhar Tupper 35 lines
Confession

Alas, how many vain and bitter things
My zeal, and pride, and natural haste have wrought;

by Martin Farquhar Tupper 14 lines
A Text For Discontent

Honest fellow, sore beset,
Vext by troubles quick and keen,

by Martin Farquhar Tupper 17 lines
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. XII. The Liberator

After all said,— how many more
Of shames and sorrows by the score

by Martin Farquhar Tupper 48 lines
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. XI. Better Barracoons: Or, Profitable Charity

Men of money, shrewd and skill'd
In putting capital to nurse,

by Martin Farquhar Tupper 62 lines
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. VIII. The Coalpit Gnome

O cheerful Christmas hearth!
Bright with the blazing coals,

by Martin Farquhar Tupper 49 lines
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. VII. The Servant-Of-All-Work

Drudgery all the day,
Drudgery half the night,—

by Martin Farquhar Tupper 53 lines
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. VI. The Outcast

A walk in the city by day ;—
When rural simplicity stops

by Martin Farquhar Tupper 62 lines
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. V. The Workwoman

"The Song of the Shirt,"— O heart-stirring hymn
How sternly and terribly true

by Martin Farquhar Tupper 53 lines
Horace's Philosophy (Od. III. 29.)

Wisely for us within night's sable veil
God hides the future; and, if men turn pale

by Martin Farquhar Tupper 29 lines
Golden Verses (From Pythagoras)

First, honour thou the immortal gods, as a law of thy being:
Next, religiously keep thine oath, and reverence heroes:

by Martin Farquhar Tupper 12 lines
Fraternal Egotism

Not in self-seeking doth the Poet draw
From his own wells, and analyse his heart;

by Martin Farquhar Tupper 14 lines
Liberty - Equality - Fraternity!

LIBERTY
Liberty! — Who shall be free?—

by Martin Farquhar Tupper 193 lines
A Common Sorrow

O thousands, who have never found your mates,
But pine in secret for their love unknown,

by Martin Farquhar Tupper 14 lines
Life-Work

No man can die, till all his work is done:
But who shall say, what work he had to do?—

by Martin Farquhar Tupper 44 lines
Facing The Foe

Yes! out of the worst, on the instant, right out!
It is better — ay best — so to show it;

by Martin Farquhar Tupper 26 lines
Home-coming

BEFORE I left I planted twenty
Ruby hawthorns, they’d be plenty

by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe 25 lines
The Sun

I told the Sun that I was glad,
I'm sure I don't know why;

by John Drinkwater 7 lines
Morning Carol

Oh! The present is gay,
And the future is bright.

by P G Wodehouse 13 lines
Greenwich Village

Way down in Greenwich Village
There's something, 'twould appear,

by P G Wodehouse 26 lines
For One Night Only (A Tragedy)

I met him in a crowd;
As if with care 'twas weighted,

by P G Wodehouse 79 lines
Fashion's Phases

When first I whispered words of love,
When first you turned aside to hear,

by P G Wodehouse 34 lines
The Rivals...A Tale of the Smart Set

At the epoch which I write of quite the smartest men in town
Were Marmaduke de Coucy and Adolphus Brummel-Brown;

by P G Wodehouse 79 lines

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