Famous Expenditure Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Expenditure poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous expenditure poems. These examples illustrate what a famous expenditure poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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The Sinking Fund Cried

by Thomas Moore
 ["Now what, we ask, is become of this Sinking Fund - these eight millions of surplus above expenditure, which were to reduce the interest of the national debt by the amount of four hundred thousand pounds annually? Where, indeed, is the Sinking Fund itself?" - The Times] 

Take your bell, take your bell,
Good Crier, and tell
To the Bulls and...Read more of this...

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