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A Smoke. George W Doneghy	O others may boast of their pleasures galore-- The miser with rapture may count o'er his store, And some may imagine great happiness there In the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Tale of the Miser and the Poet Anne Kingsmill Finch	That none is valued like the Miser, I draw it hence, and now these Sums In proper Soil grow up to {1} Plumbs; Which gather'd...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Auguries of Innocence William Blake	Are Toadstools on the Miser's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 21 Sa di	’ The miser replied: ‘It is not befitting the power and dignity of a padshah to soil the hands of his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
City Contrasts Anonymous Americas	To prison within an hour; The miser clutching his pennies, The spendthrift squandering gold, The meeked-eyed Sister of Mercy, And...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dead or alive Dead or alive	Died for starvation I saw the miser Dead or alive but dead His money can not save him No one remembers him I have got a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Drinking Song, On the Excellence of Burgundy Wine Hilaire Belloc	The miser his gold, and the student his debts, And the beggar his rags and his hunger...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Economy, A Rhapsody, Addressed to Young Poets William Shenstone	And spurn the miser, spurn his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy XI. He Complains How Soon the Pleasing Novelty of Life Is Over William Shenstone	Since, not the miser so caress'd his gold, As I, for what it gave, was heard to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle IV, To Richard Boyle, Alexander Pope	'Tis strange, the miser should his cares employ To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy: Is it less strange,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Explicit Explicit	Died for starvation I saw the miser Dead or alive but dead His money can not save him No one remembers him I have got a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Gemini And Virgo Charles Stuart Calverley	To me was ANNA; dear as gold That fills the miser's sunless coffers; As to the spinster, growing old, The thought--the dream--that she had...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hymn Of The Children John Greenleaf Whittier	Wiser than the miser's hoards Is the giver's choice; Sweeter than the song of birds Is the thankful...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In Memory Of The Late John Thornton, Esq. William Cowper	What pleasure can the miser's fondled hoard, Or spendthrift's prodigal excess afford, Sweet as the privilege of healing woe...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Job Work James Whitcomb Riley	And wrote such lines as the miser minds Hide in the hearts of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Lake Eliza Henry Lawson	’Neath sky as niggard of its rain As of his gold the miser, By mulga scrub and lignum plain We’d tramp’d to Lake...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Love's Treasure House David MacDonald Ross	And saw the miser Memory, grown gray With years of jealous counting of his gems, There...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mary Morison Robert Burns	That makes the miser's treasure...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mira's Will Mary Leapor	Let the freed Prentice lead the Miser's Heir; Let the young Relict wipe her mournful Eye, And widow'd Husbands o'er their Garlick...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Morning in the Bush Henry Kendall	The Miser, full with thoughts of gain, The meanest of his race, May in his breast some verdure hide,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
My Soul And I John Greenleaf Whittier	Thy deeds were done Thou for fame, the miser for pelf, Your end is...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode II: To Sleep Mark Akenside	Not from the courtly statesman's down, Nor where the miser and his treasure lies: Bring not the shapes that break the murderer's rest, Nor those the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Odes From Horace. - To Barine. Book The Second, Ode The Eighth. Anna Seward	Her Striplings; - thee the Miser dreads, And, of thy power aware, Brides from the Fane with anxious sighs return, Lest the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Richard Pigott, the Forger William Topaz McGonagall	Not altogether of the miser's craving, I've been told, But a craving desire after good meat and drink, And to obtain...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Roamin' Free Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	The miser sits beside his hoard, The lover tarries by...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)