Potential Titles: Money [category]
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Bill [dollar]:
Angel of ten dollar bills found in the dryer - Dean Young "Peach Farm" [Poetry June 2012]
Buck:
Selling stolen comics for eight bucks and change - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"
Cash.
Cent.
Coin.
Currency.
Dime:
A dimestore magic trick in legendary light - Regie Cabico "In a Legendary Light"
The dime store flower fields - francine j. harris "i used to write"
Stolen dime-store moments - Philip Levine "Magic"
A dime for a wired rose - Lola Ridge "Phyllis"
Dollar.
Dollar Bill:
Dollar bills for his index and ring fingers - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"
Angel of ten dollar bills found in the dryer - Dean Young "Peach Farm" [Poetry June 2012]
Doubloon:
A sparkling merry freight of doubloons - John Masefield "The Tarry Buccaneer"
Puts the doubloons over my eyes - Frank Stanford "The Mind Reader"
Ducat:
Of more esteem than ducats - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity XXXVI: Lost"
Farthing:
Who but a witless gambler plays for farthing stakes - Stella Benson "Two Women Sing"
Bitter contested farthings - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XI: Compensation"
Without e'en a farthing's expense - "Wonders of a Toy-Shop"
Gold.
Half-a-Crown:
Five crimes at half-a-crown - W.S. Gilbert "Gentle Alice Brown"
Mint.
Money.
Nickel.
Obol:
Paid his obolus on the Stygian shore - Charles Baudelaire "Don Juan in Hades" transl. not credited
Words imposing on my tongue like obols - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 5. Fosterage"
A second obol secret beneath my tongue - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"
Slips me Charon's obol - Richard Solomon "Dream Caused by the Fight of the Bumblebee"
Pence.
Penny.
Shilling:
You owe no mortal man a shilling - "April Fools" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]
Although two shillings in the pound can't pay - James Parkerson "An Address to a Wealthy Libertine / or, the Melancholy Effects of Seduction"
Silver.
Sterling:
Pass for sterling truth in open day - "The Ghost of Chatham"
Shall prove its sterling worth - Arthur Caswell Parker "My Race Shall Live Anew"
Ten Dollar Bill:
Angel of ten dollar bills found in the dryer - Dean Young "Peach Farm" [Poetry June 2012]
Twopence:
Give twopence for the chance - John Clare "The Woodman"
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Bill [dollar]:
Angel of ten dollar bills found in the dryer - Dean Young "Peach Farm" [Poetry June 2012]
Buck:
Selling stolen comics for eight bucks and change - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"
Cash.
Cent.
Coin.
Currency.
Dime:
A dimestore magic trick in legendary light - Regie Cabico "In a Legendary Light"
The dime store flower fields - francine j. harris "i used to write"
Stolen dime-store moments - Philip Levine "Magic"
A dime for a wired rose - Lola Ridge "Phyllis"
Dollar.
Dollar Bill:
Dollar bills for his index and ring fingers - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"
Angel of ten dollar bills found in the dryer - Dean Young "Peach Farm" [Poetry June 2012]
Doubloon:
A sparkling merry freight of doubloons - John Masefield "The Tarry Buccaneer"
Puts the doubloons over my eyes - Frank Stanford "The Mind Reader"
Ducat:
Of more esteem than ducats - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity XXXVI: Lost"
Farthing:
Who but a witless gambler plays for farthing stakes - Stella Benson "Two Women Sing"
Bitter contested farthings - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XI: Compensation"
Without e'en a farthing's expense - "Wonders of a Toy-Shop"
Gold.
Half-a-Crown:
Five crimes at half-a-crown - W.S. Gilbert "Gentle Alice Brown"
Mint.
Money.
Nickel.
Obol:
Paid his obolus on the Stygian shore - Charles Baudelaire "Don Juan in Hades" transl. not credited
Words imposing on my tongue like obols - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 5. Fosterage"
A second obol secret beneath my tongue - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"
Slips me Charon's obol - Richard Solomon "Dream Caused by the Fight of the Bumblebee"
Pence.
Penny.
Shilling:
You owe no mortal man a shilling - "April Fools" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]
Although two shillings in the pound can't pay - James Parkerson "An Address to a Wealthy Libertine / or, the Melancholy Effects of Seduction"
Silver.
Sterling:
Pass for sterling truth in open day - "The Ghost of Chatham"
Shall prove its sterling worth - Arthur Caswell Parker "My Race Shall Live Anew"
Ten Dollar Bill:
Angel of ten dollar bills found in the dryer - Dean Young "Peach Farm" [Poetry June 2012]
Twopence:
Give twopence for the chance - John Clare "The Woodman"
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