Money poems

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Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 2

© Christopher Smart

LET PETER rejoice with the MOON FISH who keeps up the life in the waters by night.

Let Andrew rejoice with the Whale, who is array'd in beauteous blue and is a combination of bulk and activity.

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The Man To Follow

© William Henry Ogilvie

Apart from the crowd with its banter and mirth,

Sitting loose on his mare with an eye to the whins,

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Letter To Maria Gisborne

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

The spider spreads her webs, whether she be
In poet's tower, cellar, or barn, or tree;
The silk-worm in the dark green mulberry leaves
His winding sheet and cradle ever weaves;

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Be A Friend

© Edgar Albert Guest

Be a friend. You don't need money;

Just a disposition sunny;

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Poland

© Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Augurs that watched archaic birds

  Such plumèd prodigies might read,

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Table Talk

© William Cowper

A.  You told me, I remember, glory, built

On selfish principles, is shame and guilt;

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A Christmas Carol

© George Wither


  So now is come our joyful'st feast,

  Let every man be jolly.

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Fishing Nooks

© Edgar Albert Guest

"Men will grow weary," said the Lord,

"Of working for their bed and board.

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Fitz Adam's Story

© James Russell Lowell

The next whose fortune 'twas a tale to tell

Was one whom men, before they thought, loved well,

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Purgatorio (English)

© Dante Alighieri


To run o'er better waters hoists its sail
  The little vessel of my genius now,
  That leaves behind itself a sea so cruel;

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The Hand of Glory: The Nurse's Story

© Richard Harris Barham

And now before
That old Woman's door,
Where nought that 's good may be,
Hand in hand
The Murderers stand
By one, by two, by three!

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The Fox Hunt

© William Henry Drummond

I'm all bus' up, for a mont' or two,

  On account of de wife I got,

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James Whitcomb Riley

© Paul Laurence Dunbar

(From a Westerner's Point of View.)

  No matter what you call it,

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To Man Without Money

© Robert Herrick

No man such rare parts hath, that he can swim,

If favour or occasion help not him.

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Since Jessie Died

© Edgar Albert Guest

We understand a lot of things we never did before,
And it seems that to each other Ma and I are meaning more.
I don't know how to say it, but since little Jessie died
We have learned that to be happy we must travel side by side.
You can share your joys and pleasures, but you never come to know
The depth there is in loving, till you've got a common woe.

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As It Goes

© Edgar Albert Guest

In the corner she's left the mechanical toy,

  On the chair is her Teddy Bear fine;

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The Ballad Of William Sycamore [1790-1871]

© Stephen Vincent Benet

My father, he was a mountaineer,
His fist was a knotty hammer;
He was quick on his feet as a running deer,
And he spoke with a Yankee stammer.

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Old Mister Laughter

© Edgar Albert Guest

Old Mister Laughter

  Comes a-grinnin' down the way,

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Paterson

© Allen Ginsberg

What do I want in these rooms papered with visions of money?

How much can I make by cutting my hair? If I put new heels on my shoes,