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Subject: THRIFT
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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