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Three Hundred Sonnets

By Martin F. Tupper
Tupper, Martin Farquhar (1810-1889)

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TUPPER'S SONNETS.
 
THOUGHT-CRYSTALS.
 
EDINBURGH.
 
St. DAVID'S HEAD.
 
OUR DAY.
 
TINTERN ABBEY.
 
CHANGE-CHEERFULNESS.
 
STONE-HENGE.
 
VATICINIUM: 1854.
 
BRITANNIA HASTATA: 1860.
 
BALFOUR IN ORKNEY.
 
HEART-YOUTHFULNESS.
 
THE MOUNT, ABERGANNY.
 
SKYRRID VAWR.
 
AGATES.
 
THE BRECON BEACONS.
 
ALONE.
 
CALLANISH, IN LEWIS.
 
ABEL.
 
LIFE.
 
ENOCH.
 
THE KALEIDOSCOPE.
 
ZOROASTER.
 
THE CATHEDRAL MIND.
 
ABRAHAM.
 
APOLOGY.
 
SEMIRAMIS.
 
THE MOTHER OF KINGS.
 
JOSEPH.
 
CALUMNY.
 
MOSES.
 
WISDOM.
 
DAVID.
 
SOLITUDE.
 
SOLOMON.
 
HOMER.
 
BLINDNESS.
 
ISAIAH.
 
CONSOLATION.
 
SOLON.
 
THE VERDICT.
 
ÆSOP.
 
MUCH READING.
 
SAPPHO.
 
WHEAT AND CHAFF.
 
PYTHAGORAS.
 
SILENCE.
 
CONFUCIUS.
 
EDUCATION.
 
PINDAR.
 
AUTARCHES.
 
ARISTIDES.
 
GOOD AND FAITHFUL.
 
ÆSCHYLUS.
 
RESERVE.
 
HERODOTUS.
 
LETTERS.
 
HIPPOCRATES.
 
TOOTHACHE.
 
THUCYDIDES.
 
SOCIETY.
 
SOCRATES.
 
SOCRATES TO LYSIAS.
 
PLATO.
 
HEAR THE CHURCH.
 
DEMOSTHENES.
 
PROVIDENTIAL HINTS.
 
ARISTOTLE.
 
TRUE SENATORS.
 
PHOCION.
 
NEW STATESMEN.
 
PHIDIAS.
 
WINTERHALTER'S PORTRAITS.
 
EPICURUS.
 
THE TRUE EPICURE.
 
MARCELLUS.
 
TO A CRIMEAN GENERAL.
 
HIPPARCHUS.
 
THE SUN.
 
VIRGIL.
 
THE MOON.
 
HORACE.
 
THE STARS.
 
CORNELIA.
 
OUR KINGDOM.
 
MARY THE VIRGIN.
 
WAIT.
 
OUR BROTHER IN HEAVEN.
 
A REPLY TO CERTAIN.
 
ST. JOHN.
 
SELF-RESTRAINT.
 
ST. PAUL.
 
CONFESSION.
 
ZENOBIA.
 
INFLUENCES.
 
COLOMBA.
 
DUTY.
 
BEDE.
 
PHANTASIA.
 
CHARLEMAGNE.
 
IMAGINATION.
 
HAROON ALRASCHID.
 
MODERN PROGRESS.
 
ALFRED.
 
FRIENDS.
 
DANTE.
 
FOES.
 
TELL.
 
FRATERNAL EGOTISM.
 
PETRARCH.
 
FROM PETRARCH.
 
COLUMBUS.
 
THE GOLD-DIGGINGS.
 
RAFFAELLE.
 
DISPARAGEMENT.
 
BAYARD.
 
APPRECIATION.
 
LUTHER.
 
MY NAMESAKE.
 
JANE GREY.
 
STRANGE ATTRIBUTES.
 
SHAKSPEARE.
 
PEACE AND QUIETNESS.
 
CERVANTES.
 
YOUNG-HEARTED.
 
HARVEY.
 
PAIN.
 
EVELYN.
 
HOP-PICKING.
 
MILTON.
 
GOOD AND EVIL.
 
IZAAK WALTON.
 
FLY-FISHING.
 
ISAAC NEWTON.
 
TIME'S HONOUR.
 
FENELON.
 
THE FIELD, THE WORLD.
 
CZAR PETER.
 
IMPULSE.
 
HANDEL.
 
PRAISE AND BLAME.
 
WESLEY.
 
CHRISTIAN UNION.
 
LINNÆUS.
 
A GREENHOUSE.
 
JOHNSON.
 
SUCCESS.
 
GALVANI.
 
PEACE AND STRIFE.
 
WASHINGTON.
 
ENGLAND APPROVED.
 
HOWARD.
 
EMIGRATION.
 
KLOPSTOCK.
 
TO KLOPSTOCK'S SPIRIT.
 
NELSON.
 
PRESIDENT TAYLOR.
 
FELIX NEFF.
 
AN ASPIRATION.
 
GENIUS BOUND.
 
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.
 
WORDSWORTH.
 
RYDAL'S BARD.
 
PEEL.
 
GLADSTONE, AT NAPLES.
 
CAMBRIDGE.
 
SAMUEL ROGERS.
 
MORSE'S TELEGRAPH.
 
NIAGARA.
 
TO AMERICA.
 
ENGLAND'S CHILD.
 
COLUMBIA'S FUTURE.
 
OUR WESTERN SON.
 
REPULSIONS.
 
ATTRACTIONS.
 
FALSE PATIENCE.
 
TRUE PATIENCE.
 
SPITHEAD.
 
CHOBHAM.
 
A RISE.
 
THE TROPHY.
 
ARMY PURCHASE.
 
ARMY CASTE.
 
WINTER.
 
SUMMER.
 
DEATH.
 
LIFE.
 
MATTER.
 
SPIRIT.
 
WORLDLY.
 
WORTHY.
 
PROSE.
 
POETRY.
 
MALICE.
 
CHEERFULNESS.
 
RICHES.
 
POVERTY.
 
NATURE.
 
ART.
 
AVERSION.
 
ATTRACTION.
 
MODERN.
 
ANCIENT.
 
PRACTICE.
 
THEORY.
 
HOME, WRETCHED.
 
HOME, HAPPY.
 
MISANTHROPIC.
 
PHILANTHROPIC.
 
MEANNESS.
 
LIBERALITY.
 
PROTESTING TRUTH.
 
UNHOLY ALLIANCE.
 
WHITE SLAVERY.
 
EMANCIPATED.
 
TOWN.
 
COUNTRY.
 
THE RUSSIAN WAR.
 
THE CAUSE.
 
JUDGED.
 
ALFRED'S MEMORIAL: 1849.
 
ALFRED'S CHILDREN.
 
BRITAIN AND COLUMBIA.
 
ASCOT: WHEN HERO WON.
 
THE ART TREASURES: 1857.
 
ART-INFLUENCES.
 
WASTE IN ART.
 
THE GREAT EXHIBITION.
 
FRANKNESS.
 
THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY.
 
NATIONAL PRAYERS.
 
A ROYAL BRIDE.
 
A ROYAL BRIDEGROOM.
 
PRUSSIA'S HEIR.
 
VICTORIA'S GRANDCHILD.
 
MALIGNED GREATNESS.
 
WELCOME TO SARDINIA.
 
WELCOME TO FRANCE.
 
THE IMPERIAL VISIT.
 
THE PARTING GUESTS.
 
AT THE ACCESSION.
 
PROPHETS.
 
MONT ST. MICHEL.
 
THE SAME: NORMANDY.
 
A CHURCH APPEAL.
 
ST. ANN'S, ALDERNEY.
 
A CONSECRATION.
 
THE SAME: SHALFORD.
 
TARRING CHURCH.
 
THE SAME PLACE AND DAY.
 
THE SAME: LONG AFTER.
 
MY FATHER.
 
A BIRTHDAY PRAYER.
 
THE WORLD.
 
A GLIMPSE OF EDEN.
 
INFANT DAUGHTERS.
 
ELLIN.—1837.
 
MARY.—1838.
 
MARGARET.—1840.
 
MARTIN.—1842.
 
WILLIAM.—1844.
 
HENRY.—1847.
 
THE SEVENTH: WALTER.
 
ALICE.
 
ON A CHILD STILL-BORN.
 
A PLEA FOR SUCH.
 
HORACE'S PHILOSOPHY.
 
FROM THE SAME ODE. III. 29.
 
TO A PREMIER: 1839.
 
POLITICS IN 1839.
 
ROMISH PRIESTCRAFT.—1851.
 
CHURCH-DIVIDINGS.
 
THE PAPAL AGGRESSION.
 
TOLERATION.
 
ON BOARD THE ASIA.
 
ATLANTIC MERCIES.
 
ARRIVAL AT NEW YORK.
 
RETURN IN THE ARCTIC.
 
CHURCH WORLDLINGS.
 
GOOD PRIESTS.
 
ON A BIRTH.
 
GUERNSEY.
 
THE LIBERIAN CHURCH.
 
AFRICA'S SELF-BLOCKADE.
 
EXPEDIENCE.
 
TO CERTAIN PRELATES.
 
OUR PROTESTANTISM.
 
TRIMMERS.
 
GOOD BISHOPS.
 
GRATITUDE.
 
AUTHORSHIP.
 
THANKS.
 
TO ALL FRIENDS.
 
A PORTRAIT.
 
ANONYMOUS POEMS.
 
THUS FAR.
 
THE LAST STONE.

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16

ALONE.

Unvext by any eye, by any tongue,
In meditative bliss beside the sea
Exultingly I loiter, calm and free,
Looking for agates as I stroll along,
And finding health and peace and joy for me
The beach, the sands, the seaweed-rocks among!
Alone;—what anodyne so sweet as this?
Silence, or only music of the waves,—
And Solitude, with only Nature's kiss
When my glad cheek with dewy spray she laves;
Silence, and Solitude; my twofold joy
Wherewith a stranger intermeddleth not,
I hold you here, and hug my golden lot
Untarnished with Society's alloy.
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