Famous Spendthrift Poems by Famous Poets

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Camerons Heart

...eron's aunt. 
The meenister called him `ungodly -- a stray frae the fauld o' the Lord', 
And his aunt set him down as a spendthrift, `a rebel at hame and abroad'. 

He got drunk now and then and he gambled (such heroes are often the same); 
That's all they could say in connection with Alister Cameron's name. 
He was straight and he stuck to his country 
and spoke with respect of his kirk; 
He did his full share of the cooking, and more than his share of the work. 
And many a ...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry


Companioned

...I walked to-day, but not alone,
Adown a windy, sea-girt lea,
For memory, spendthrift of her charm,
Peopled the silent lands for me. 

The faces of old comradeship
In golden youth were round my way,
And in the keening wind I heard
The songs of many an orient day. 

And to me called, from out the pines
And woven grasses, voices dear,
As if from elfin lips should fall
The mimicked tones of yesteryear. 

Old laughter echoed o'er the ...Read more of this...
by Montgomery, Lucy Maud

Endymion: Book III

...a o'er the billows rude.
For as Apollo each eve doth devise
A new appareling for western skies;
So every eve, nay every spendthrift hour
Shed balmy consciousness within that bower.
And I was free of haunts umbrageous;
Could wander in the mazy forest-house
Of squirrels, foxes shy, and antler'd deer,
And birds from coverts innermost and drear
Warbling for very joy mellifluous sorrow--
To me new born delights!

 "Now let me borrow,
For moments few, a temperament as stern
As Plut...Read more of this...
by Keats, John

Krishna

...seers’ enraptured eyes.
I saw the King of Kings again, a miser with a heart grown cold,
And yet He is the Prodigal, the Spendthrift of the Heavenly Gold,
The largesse of whose glory crowns the blazing brows of cherubim,
And sun and moon and stars and flowers are jewels scattered forth by Him.
I saw the King of Kings descend the narrow doorway to the dust
With all his fires of morning still, the beauty, bravery, and lust.
And yet He is the life within the Ever-living Living On...Read more of this...
by Russell, George William

Ravenna

...queror,
Rich Autumn-time, the season's usurer,
Will lend his hoarded gold to all the trees,
And see it scattered by the spendthrift breeze;
And after that the Winter cold and drear.
So runs the perfect cycle of the year.
And so from youth to manhood do we go,
And fall to weary days and locks of snow.
Love only knows no winter; never dies:
Nor cares for frowning storms or leaden skies
And mine for thee shall never pass away,
Though my weak lips may falter in my lay.

Adieu! Ad...Read more of this...
by Wilde, Oscar


The Country Clown

...t impudence the prize shall gain, 
And bid thee sigh no more in vain. 
Thy varied dress shall quickly show 
At once the spendthrift and the beau. 
With pert address and noisy tongue, 
That scorns the fear of prating wrong 
'Mongst listening coxcombs shalt thou shine, 
And every voice shall echo thine....Read more of this...
by Trumbull, John

The Deserted Village

...relieved their pain;
The long remembered beggar was his guest,
Whose beard descending swept his aged breast;
The ruined spendthrift, now no longer proud,
Claimed kindred there, and had his claims allowed;
The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay,
Sat by his fire, and talked the night away;
Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done,
Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won.
Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow,
And quite forgot their vices in ...Read more of this...
by Goldsmith, Oliver

The Fitzroy Blacksmith

...Under the spreading deficit, 
The Fitzroy Smithy stands; 
The smith, a spendthrift man is he, 
With too much on his hands; 
But the muscles of his brawny jaw 
Are strong as iron bands. 
Pay out, pay put, from morn till night, 
You can hear the sovereigns go; 
Or you'll hear him singing "Old Folks at Home", 
In a deep bass voice and slow, 
Like a bullfrog down in the village well 
When the evening sun is low. 

The Australian go...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

The Garden Of Eros

...time, the season's usurer,
Will lend his hoarded gold to all the trees,
And see his treasure scattered by the wild and spendthrift breeze.

Too soon indeed! yet here the daffodil,
That love-child of the Spring, has lingered on
To vex the rose with jealousy, and still
The harebell spreads her azure pavilion,
And like a strayed and wandering reveller
Abandoned of its brothers, whom long since June's messenger

The missel-thrush has frighted from the glade,
One pale narcissus l...Read more of this...
by Wilde, Oscar

The Old Poet

...t the winter in my heart--
Dead hopes and withered promise; and will wring
A little joy from life ere life depart.

For spendthrift youth with passion-blinded eyes,
Stays not to see how woods and fields are bright;
He hears the phantom voices call, he flies
Upon the track of some unknown delight.

To him the tender glory of the May,
White wonder of the blossom, and the clear,
Soft green leaves that opened yesterday,
This only say: Forward, my friend, not here!

They breathe n...Read more of this...
by Levy, Amy

The Recall

...sport.
And if you come and take one little blossom no one will miss it."
Those that used to play are playing still, so spendthrift is
life.
I listen to their chatter and call, "Come back, my darling,
for mother's heart is full to the brim with love, and if you come
to snatch only one little kiss from her no one will grudge it."...Read more of this...
by Tagore, Rabindranath

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