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Subject: SPENDTHRIFTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SPENDTHRIFT, by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You have outrun your fortune
Last Line: Minus one crown, two liards!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bulwer, Edward; Lytton Of Knebworth, 1st Baron; Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer, Lord
Subject(s): Spendthrifts


IN DAYS TO COME, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Perhaps, when you grow old--extremely old--
Last Line: Had!
Subject(s): Happiness; Spendthrifts; Joy; Delight


JUST VANILLA, by SUSAN WHEELER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue
Subject(s): Spendthrifts


ON THE PRODIGAL AND THE COVETOUS, by JOHN OWEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Misers distribute nothing while they live
Last Line: And spendthrifts when they die have nought to give.
Subject(s): Misers; Spendthrifts


PROCRASTINATION, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My lady wears a big bouquet
Last Line: She grows more wasteful.
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Materialism; Procrastination; Spendthrifts; Vanity; Male-female Relations


QUATRAIN: SPENDTHRIFT, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fault's not mine, you understand
Last Line: And not much gold.
Subject(s): Spendthrifts


SPENDTHRIFT, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He died a poor man, so they say
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Spendthrifts


SPENDTHRIFT, by ALYS FANE TROTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: They asked me for my oil, and so I gave it
Subject(s): Spendthrifts


THE CIRCUS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In my purse there was gold
Last Line: But grace went to the circus.
Subject(s): Circus; Money; Spendthrifts; Women


THE SPENDTHRIFT, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She tossed her green but faded frock
Last Line: This lovely profligate!
Subject(s): Spendthrifts