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Cotter's Saturday Night, The Robert Burns	His clean hearth-stane, his thrifty wifie's smile, The lisping infant prattling on his knee, Does a' his weary kiaugh and...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Winter Song Paul Laurence Dunbar	The squirrel's enjoying the rest of the thrifty, He munches his store in the old hollow tree; Tho' cold is the blast and the snow-flakes...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Black Job. Thomas Hood	Many a frugal sister, thrifty daughter - Many a stinted widow, pinching mother - With income by the tax made somewhat...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
A Faith On Trial George Meredith	Home of a diligent race; Thrifty, deft-handed to ply Shuttle or needle, and woo Sun to the roots of the pear Frogging...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Farmhouse Dirge Alfred Austin	farmer's hope, and the poults, that gladden his thrifty wife; Or, turning, look on the hazy weald,-you will not be seen from here,- Till your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Holiday Lizette Woodworth Reese	Rumors of orchard or of bin; The thrifty things of east and west,— The countryside becomes my Inn, And I its happy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Letter from Italy Joseph Addison	From thrifty urns and an unfruitful source; Yet sung so often in poetic lays, With scorn the Danube...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Rare Guest Alfred Austin	IV Men wax rich by thrifty living; Love is opulent from giving, Keeps its store from growing less By unceasing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Story Of Plantagenet. Margaret Dixon McDougall	A thrifty settler's only son, Who much of backwoods wealth had won; A steady lad of nature mild, Had...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Aechdeacon Barbour John Greenleaf Whittier	The keys of thrifty life, — the mill-stream's fall, The engine's pant along its quivering rails, The anvil's ring,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bright Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	The thrifty, scared...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cobbers and Quids Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	Than all the thrifty pedant's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Convalescent Ambrose Bierce	Or flatter for the gold of thrifty men Who hate his person but employ his pen- Who love and loathe, respectively, the dirt...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Convalescent [What! 'Out of danger?' Can the slighted Dame] Ambrose Bierce	Or flatter for the gold of thrifty men Who hate his person but employ his pen Who love and loathe, respectively, the dirt...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cow Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	An' the reason I'm teetotal is becos me thrifty throat'll Jest refuse ter swaller stuff that's costin' me a precious...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Desire Darius Munene	As a rowdy thrifty will, does it exist, or...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Disappointed. Paul Laurence Dunbar	Then he said: 'I will quiet my thrifty fears, For here is fruit for my failing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Emancipation Ambrose Bierce	Destroy the health yet spare the appetite, While thrifty sisters o'er the cauldron stoop To serve their God with zeal, their friends with soup, And all...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
For The Marriage of Faustus and Helen Harold Hart Crane	On the sixteen thrifty bridges of the city: Let us unbind our throats of fear and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Fox-Hunting Rudyard Kipling	When thrifty Walpole took the helm, And hedging came in fashion, The March of Progress gave my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
God Rules Alway Ella Wheeler Wilcox	The while his thrifty tenant is pursuing The white slave trade on sacred, untaxed...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Herbs Lizette Woodworth Reese	Is fennel, mint, or balm, Kept in the thrifty calm Of hollows, in the spring; Or by old houses...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Here's to the Maiden of Bashful Fifteen Richard Brinsley Sheridan	And here's to the housewife that's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
It's easy to invent a Life Emily Dickinson	Of His Authority— It's easy to efface it— The thrifty Deity Could scarce afford Eternity To...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Judged Leaders Richard Newton Sherrer	The charms expert who is thrifty, Call upon the great...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)