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“God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.”

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This book is a compilation of poems that explore a wide range of subjects and emotions, showcasing the beauty and depth of the poetic form. more

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John Godfrey Saxe

John Godfrey Saxe was a British poet, born on June 2, 1816, and died on March 31, 1887. His poetry works were extensive and diverse, beloved by readers. more

“Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It’s a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I’ve always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I’ve always loved it and I like how those words sound together.”

Use Together Language Sound Wife Stranger Code Girlfriend Abusers Alliteration

Author:Ben Gibbard

“But blast the man, with curses loud and deep, Whate'er the rascal's name, or age, or station, Who first invented, and went round advising, That artificial cut-off, Early Rising!”

Men Firsts Age Names Cutting He Man Rounds Loud Curse Rising Stations Artificial Blast Rascals

Book:The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe

Source: The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe

“I like the lad who, when his father thought To clip his morning nap by hackneyed phrase Of vagrant worm by early songster caught, Cried, "Served him right! it's not at all surprising; The worm was punished, sir, for early rising!”

Father Morning Caught Phrases Rising Surprising Cried Worms Naps Lad Clip Vagrants

Book:The Poems: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poems: Complete in One Volume

“I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in the eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm growing deeper in my sighs; I'm growing careless of my dress; I'm growing frugal of my gold; I'm growing wise; I'm growing yes, I'm growing old!”

Eye Laughing Wise Growing Gold Dresses Deeper Staff Sigh Growing Old Careless Frugal

Book:The Money-king: And Other Poems

Source: The Money-king: And Other Poems

“I asked of Echo 't other day (Whose words are few and often funny), What to a novice she could say Of courtship, love, and matrimony. Quoth Echo, plainly, "Matter-o'-money.”

Matter Echoes Matrimony Courtship Novices

Book:The Masquerade: And Other Poems

Source: The Masquerade: And Other Poems

“The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of beauty. To gaze with rapture at the stars That in the skies are glowing; To see the gems of perfect dye That in the woods are growing, And more than sage astronomer, And more than learned florist, To read the glorious homilies Of Firmament and Forest.”

World Looks Stars Perfect Growing Sky Poet Duty Woods Forests Glorious Delightful Sage License Glowing Rapture Gems Astronomers Firmament Delightful Things

Book:The Masquerade: And Other Poems

Source: The Masquerade: And Other Poems

“When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may concern!" And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, And, though another hold the land, Is owner of the flowers.”

Giving Writing May Land Poet Flower Concern Rose Owners Yield Motto Simplest Gorgeous Ferns

Book:The Poems: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poems: Complete in One Volume

“Long pains are light ones, Cruel ones are brief!”

Long Light Pain Compensation

Book:The Poems: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poems: Complete in One Volume

“God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said and so say I; And bless him, also, that he didn't keep His great discovery to himself, nor try To make it, as the lucky fellow might A close monopoly by patent-right.”

Men Trying Firsts Said Might Sleep He Man Lucky Discovery Fellows Bless Monopoly God Bless Patents

Book:The Money-king: And Other Poems

Source: The Money-king: And Other Poems

“Old Care has a mortgage on every estate, And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get.”

Care Wealth Pay Estates Mortgage Old Car

Book:The Poems: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poems: Complete in One Volume

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