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Famous Lender Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...ols put money on, sir! 

And now in my dream I seem to go 
And bet with a "book" that I seem to know -- 
A Hebrew money-lender; 
A million to five is the price I get -- 
Not bad! but before I book the bet 
The horse's name I clean forgret, 
Its number and even gender. 

Now for the start, and here they come, 
And the hoof-strokes roar like a mighty drum 
Beat by a hand unsteady; 
They come like a rushing, roaring flood, 
Hurrah for the speed of the Chester blood; 
For Acme is...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton



...an heir. 

All that prey on vice and folly 
Joy to see their quarry fly, 
Here the gamester light and jolly 
There the lender grave and sly. 

Wealth, Sir John, was made to wander, 
Let it wander as it will; 
See the jocky, see the pander, 
Bid them come, and take their fill. 

When the bonny blade carouses, 
Pockets full, and spirits high, 
What are acres? What are houses? 
Only dirt, or wet or dry. 

If the Guardian or the Mother 
Tell the woes of willful waste, 
Scorn the...Read more of this...
by Johnson, Samuel

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