|
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: THRIFT Matches Found: 16 EPIGRAM: ON A POOR MAN OF EXTRAVAGANT HABITS, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Such lavish purchases, my giddy-friend Last Line: Who buys so much will soon have all to sell! Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Saving And Thrift EPIGRAM: ON A SPENDTHRIFT, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To you, while yet he lived, your father lent Last Line: You're disinherited by being heir! Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Borrowers And Lenders; Saving And Thrift EPIGRAM: ON CHEAP PURCHASING, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See here!' cries bassus, in a brand-new coat Last Line: "of buying mighty cheap -- who never pays!" Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Saving And Thrift EXPENSES EXHAUST, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live with a thrifty, not a needy fate Last Line: Small shots paid often, waste a vast estate. Subject(s): Saving & Thrift IN TIME OF PLENTY, by ANNA SPENCER TWITCHELL Poem Text First Line: From fountains deep and still Last Line: Lest I might starve some day. Subject(s): Saving And Thrift JOBS AND MONEY, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: By the time manny graduates high school, he will have passed a dozen Last Line: Job so I can pay reant, hiet, phone, for the house. I have to have a nouf %money to biy gas for my t Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Money; Saving And Thrift; Teenagers; Unemployment MAGNUM VECTIGAL PARSIMONIA, by GEORGE GASCOIGNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The common speech is, spend and god will send Last Line: Shall find that sparing yields a goodly rent Subject(s): Saving And Thrift MY BROTHER'S REALLY STINGY, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Thrift NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 19TH PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spare not nor spend too much; be this thy care Last Line: But he spends best that spares to spend again. Subject(s): Saving And Thrift ON THE NOTORIOUS SPENDTHRIFT SIR ANDREW NOEL, OF BROOKE, by ELIZABETH I Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The word of denial and letter of fifty Last Line: Is that gentleman's name that will never be thrifty Alternate Author Name(s): Tudor, Elizabeth Subject(s): Saving And Thrift SONG FOR THRIFT WEEK, by MILDRED WESTON Poem Source First Line: As soon %as a squirrel Last Line: To pepper %its skin full Subject(s): Saving And Thrift THRIFT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Say not, tis base to spare Last Line: Thy fancy weens,) who best knows how to spare. Subject(s): Thrift THRIFT, by DEBORAH BURNHAM Poem Source First Line: Perhaps the nazis were the thriftiest of all Subject(s): Nazis; Saving And Thrift THRIFT, by MARTYN FORD Poem Source First Line: He sits in his windowless dining room Last Line: Has been eaten up. As if he also hated waste, %which, when we look around us, is not the case Subject(s): Saving And Thrift THRIFT, by JAMES SCRUTON Poem Source First Line: Since money doesn't grow on trees, you've saved Last Line: As coins you'd save to buy the perfect gift Subject(s): Saving And Thrift THRIFTLESS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's well to be sunny, and frisky and gay, if Last Line: Heedless, the shiftless, the fellows who fail. Subject(s): Saving And Thrift |
|