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Ballads for the Times

(Now first collected,) Geraldine, A Modern Pyramid, Bartenus, A Thousand Lines, and other poems. By Martin F. Tupper. A new Edition, enlarged and revised

Tupper, Martin Farquhar (1810-1889)

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Ballads for the Times, &c. &c.

The Anglo-Saxon Race.

England's Welcome to the World.

A Hymn for all Nations.

Canterbury Pilgrims.

The Canterbury Seal.

Britain, to Columbia.

Dieu, et mon Droit.

The Great Exhibition of 1851.

The Poet's Mission.

God bless the Queen.

The Moon and Moonshine.

“Nobody Feels or Cares!”

The “Clameur de Haro.”

Mont Orgueil: Jersey.

Come as you are.

St. Helier's Hermitage, Jersey.

St. Paul's, of St. Helena.

“How much worse it might haue been!”

A Night-sail in the Race of Alderney,

The Manchester Athenæum.

Genius and Friends.

The Kingston Coronation Stone.

A Staue of Sympathy.

The Laurel Crown.

“The Lamp upon the Railway Engine.”

Mercy to Animals.

The Dog's Petition:

“England's Heart!”

“What is a Poet?”

Self-Possession.

The Golden Mean.

“God preserue the Queen!”

A Ballad for the Prince Alfred;

A National Anthem for Liberia in Africa.

The Liberian Beacon.

A National Prayer against the Cholera.

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A Hymn and a Chant

The Man about Town.

A Prayer for the Land.

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“Liberty—Equality—Fraternity!”

Reuisiting Charterhouse,

“Non Angli sed Angeli.”

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A Thousand Lines, etc.

The Song of Sixteen.

The Song of Seventy.

Nature's Nobleman.

Forgive and Forget.

“My Mind to me a Kingdom is.”

Rule, Britannia!

The Emigrant Ship.

The Assurance of Horace.

The Assurance of Ovid.

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All's for the best!

The Riddle read.

The Battle of Roleia.

The Early Gallop.

The Heart's Husband.

The Thanks of Parliament to Wellington and his Army.

The Cromlech du Tus, Guernsey.

My Children.—1845.

A Debt of Love.—1838.

Henry de B. T.—1847.

“The warm young Heart.”

To Cidli, asleep.

The Order of Alfred.—1849.

The Day of a Thousand Years!

The Memorial Window

A Call to poor Sempstresses.

Our Thanksgiving Hymn.

Acceptable Thanks!

“Together.”

“The last Time.”

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I.

Conclusion to Part I.

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II.

Conclusion to Part II.

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III.

Conclusion to Part III.

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SOME EARLY POEMS.

The Song of an Alpine Elf.

Infant Christ, with Flowers.

Past, Present, and Future.

A Short Gospel.

On a Bulbous Root,

Monsieur d'Alueron.

The Mother's Lament.

The Stammerer's Complaint.

A Cabinet of Fossils.

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I.

II.

II.— PSALM XIX.

III.

III.— PSALM XX.

IV.

IV.— PSALM LXXXV.

V.

V.— PSALM CXLIV.

The Mourner comforted.—1833.

The Souls of Brutes.—1832.

The Chamois Hunter.—1829.

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CONTRASTED SONNETS.

To my Book, “Prouerbial Philosophy,”

Lament.—1837.

Down with Foreign Priestcraft.—1851.

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Six American Ballads.

I.

I.— To Brother Jonathan.

II.

II.— “Ye Thirty noble Nations.”

III.

III.— John's Rejoinder.

IV.

IV.— The “International.”

V.

V.— A Stave for the South.

VI.

VI.— “Yet once again.”

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Haste, O haste,—'tis almost past,
The sand is dripping thick and fast,
And distant roars the coming blast,—