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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MISERS Matches Found: 20 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DISCOVERY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While hero-fools of vaguely valiant mind Last Line: While all his world revolved around himself. Subject(s): Misers A TALE OF THE MISER AND THE POET, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wit, transported with enditing Last Line: And let the bank out-swell parnassus.' Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Misers EPIGRAM: ON A MISER, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If it be true, as grave historians say Last Line: Death by starvation you've no cause to fear! Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Food & Eating; Misers MISER, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen many things Last Line: Counting my gold. Subject(s): Misers MISER DAY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Friday was simon's miser day Last Line: He was worse than an old corn separator Subject(s): Day; Misers MISER TIME, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miser time grows Subject(s): Misers MISER'S FATE, by MRS. RUSSELL KAVANAUGH Poem Source First Line: Inside a squalid chamber Subject(s): Misers MOHAMMED AND THE MISER, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was wailing in the village - not the woe of hireling tears Last Line: Not the date-fruit, but the date-trees, strewed the desolated plain. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Misers; Muhammad, The Prophet (570-632); Mahomet; Mohammed ON A MISER, by LUCILIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They call thee rich! - I deem thee poor Last Line: The treasure is not thine, but theirs. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucillius; Carus Titus Lucilius Subject(s): Misers ON A MISER (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a miser, traversing his house" Last Line: "I come to lodge, and not to board" Subject(s): Misers ON A MISER (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Art thou some individual of a kind Last Line: To fatten with thy spoils thou know'st not whom? Subject(s): Misers 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 THE MISER, by BEN ZED Poem Text First Line: A miser once dreamed he had given away Last Line: That as long as he lived he would slumber no more. Subject(s): Jews; Misers; Selfishness; Judaism THE MISER, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To be frugal is wise;' and this lesson of truth Last Line: Will outweigh all the gold we can leave. Subject(s): Misers THE MISER, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I was out last night Subject(s): Self; Reality; Misers; Obsessions THE MISER'S ALTERNATIVE (A TRUE STORY), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We knew a miser, calm and cold Last Line: "I'd make it into butter." Subject(s): Misers THE MISER'S MANSION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou mouldering mansion, whose embattled side Last Line: And angels hymn'd the rich man's soul to heaven. Subject(s): Future Life; Generosity; Hospitality; Misers; Wealth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Riches; Fortunes THE OIL-MERCHANT'S ASS; FROM YRIARTE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An ass, whose customary toil Last Line: (poor donkeys!) with the oilman's ass. Subject(s): Donkeys; Misers; Burros UPON A MISER THAT MADE A GREAT FEAST; THE NEXT DAY HE DIED FOR GRIEF, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nor 'scapes he so; our dinner was so good Last Line: Throughout all ovid's metamorphoses.] Subject(s): Food & Eating; Grief; Misers; Sorrow; Sadness YES, THERE ARE STINGY PEOPLE, by HAN-SHAN Poem Source Last Line: When the weeds are poking through your skull, %that's the day you'll have regrets! Subject(s): Misers |
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