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The poetical works of John Godfrey Saxe
Household Edition : with illustrations
Saxe, John Godfrey (1816-1887)
POEMS.
LOVE POEMS.
LEISURE-DAY RHYMES.
FAIRY TALES, LEGENDS, AND APOLOGUES.
FABLES AND FAIRY TALES.
FABLES AND LEGENDS OF MANY COUNTRIES.
SATIRES.
EXCERPTS FROM OCCASIONAL POEMS.
TRANSLATIONS AND PARAPHRASES.
TRAVESTIES.
SONNETS.
EPIGRAMS.
THE EXPLANATION.
FAMILY QUARRELS.
TEACHING BY EXAMPLE.
A COMMON ALTERNATIVE.
A PLAIN CASE.
OVER-CANDID.
NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND.
AN EQUIVOCAL APOLOGY.
TOO CANDID BY HALF.
ON A RECENT CLASSIC CONTROVERSY.
LUCUS A NON.
A CANDID CANDIDATE.
NEMO REPENTE TURPISSIMUS.
ON AN ILL-READ LAWYER.
CONJURGIUM NON CONJUGIUM.
CHEAP ENOUGH.
ON AN UGLY PERSON SITTING FOR A DAGUERREOTYPE.
ON A FAMOUS WATER-SUIT.
KISSING CASUISTRY.
TO A POETICAL CORRESPONDENT.
ON A LONG-WINDED ORATOR.
THE THREE WIVES.
THE LOST CHARACTER.
A DILEMMA.
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The poetical works of John Godfrey Saxe
CHEAP ENOUGH.
They
've a saying in Italy, pointed and terse,
That a pretty girl's smiles are the tears of the purse.
“What matter?” says Charley, “Can diamonds be cheap?
Let lovers be happy, though purses should weep!”
The poetical works of John Godfrey Saxe