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somethingdarkerBankrupt.
Beg.
Cheap.
Debt.
Deficit:
In deficit of countless springs - Lucius Beebe "Autumn Lament"
To supply the grim deficit found in our days - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Deprive.
Dole.
Dun.
Eke:
Eked from iron and wreaked from blue - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heron"
Evict.
Foreclose:
Yet when Mephisto would foreclose - Oliver Herford "Mephisto"
math that equates to foreclosures - Jose Olivarez "you the business folk"
How time, the cruel banker, forecloses us - D.A. Powell "corydon & alexis, redux"
Someone else's dream foreclosed - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Oak Falls"
Forfeit:
The forfeit of his mutual vow - Djuna Barnes "First Communion"
Forfeit that fair chance - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Music of the World and of the Soul"
May just revenge his forfeit life demand - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The apathetic mind and forfeit soul - Harry Martinson "Aniara 87" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Forfeited at some wild hazard - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
Hardscrabble:
In our hardscrabble dreams - Cyrus Cassells "Caesars and Dreamers"
Impecunious:
Night's impecunious craftsman - Timothy Donnelly "To His Own Device"
Impoverish:
The extent of her impoverished heart - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Fannie Lou Hamer"
Could starve in this impoverished light - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"
Improvidence:
Acknowledging an improvident surprise - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Karma"
Indigent:
An indigence of the light - Wallace Stevens "Lebensweisheitspielerei"
Insolvent/Insolvency:
The insolvency of emerging versions - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"
Liability:
With secret benefits and obvious liabilities - Jim Daniels "Good Reception"
Always a version of the liability - Carol Muske-Dukes "Grief Dream"
Lien:
And placed a lien on your bones - Mike Allen "Lis Pendens"
Owe.
Parsimony:
A shadowy duet of parsimony and elegance - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Pauper:
Pauper's cot and hall of kings - Ceiriog "Daybreak" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Pauper of the earth - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Christmas in the Heart"
Makes a mystic of the pauper - Terrance Hayes "Liner Notes for an Imaginary Planet"
From the king on his throne, to the pauper in tatters - Percy Hendon "On Lord Grosvenor's Annual Income" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12, no.335, 11 Oct. 1828]
Pawn.
Payday Loan:
Lend it to you like a payday loan - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
Pittance:
Sharp pittances of years - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XI: Compensation"
To save a bit from the pittance paid him - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
With reverie's wasteful pittance - James Russell Lowell "To C. F. Bradford on the Gift of a Meerschaum Pipe"
Poor.
Poverty.
Promissory:
Our garments soaked in promissory rain - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
Sharecropper:
Vines strong as a dozen sharecroppers - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"
A sharecropper of loneliness - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Madear Tests Positive"
Spendthrift.
Squalor:
Squalid toads at dusk were seen - Dr. Jenner (1810) "Signs of Rain" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 15, June 30, 1832]
Where privilege & squalor lived beneath the same ornate ceiling - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"
Squander.
Stint:
Punishment came without stint or delay - "Disobeying Mother" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
Weaving without stint or measure - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Usury:
And pay this bitter usury to atone - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The usury of honey - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
Worthless.
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Beg.
Cheap.
Debt.
Deficit:
In deficit of countless springs - Lucius Beebe "Autumn Lament"
To supply the grim deficit found in our days - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Deprive.
Dole.
Dun.
Eke:
Eked from iron and wreaked from blue - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heron"
Evict.
Foreclose:
Yet when Mephisto would foreclose - Oliver Herford "Mephisto"
math that equates to foreclosures - Jose Olivarez "you the business folk"
How time, the cruel banker, forecloses us - D.A. Powell "corydon & alexis, redux"
Someone else's dream foreclosed - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Oak Falls"
Forfeit:
The forfeit of his mutual vow - Djuna Barnes "First Communion"
Forfeit that fair chance - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Music of the World and of the Soul"
May just revenge his forfeit life demand - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The apathetic mind and forfeit soul - Harry Martinson "Aniara 87" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Forfeited at some wild hazard - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
Hardscrabble:
In our hardscrabble dreams - Cyrus Cassells "Caesars and Dreamers"
Impecunious:
Night's impecunious craftsman - Timothy Donnelly "To His Own Device"
Impoverish:
The extent of her impoverished heart - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Fannie Lou Hamer"
Could starve in this impoverished light - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"
Improvidence:
Acknowledging an improvident surprise - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Karma"
Indigent:
An indigence of the light - Wallace Stevens "Lebensweisheitspielerei"
Insolvent/Insolvency:
The insolvency of emerging versions - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"
Liability:
With secret benefits and obvious liabilities - Jim Daniels "Good Reception"
Always a version of the liability - Carol Muske-Dukes "Grief Dream"
Lien:
And placed a lien on your bones - Mike Allen "Lis Pendens"
Owe.
Parsimony:
A shadowy duet of parsimony and elegance - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Pauper:
Pauper's cot and hall of kings - Ceiriog "Daybreak" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Pauper of the earth - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Christmas in the Heart"
Makes a mystic of the pauper - Terrance Hayes "Liner Notes for an Imaginary Planet"
From the king on his throne, to the pauper in tatters - Percy Hendon "On Lord Grosvenor's Annual Income" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12, no.335, 11 Oct. 1828]
Pawn.
Payday Loan:
Lend it to you like a payday loan - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
Pittance:
Sharp pittances of years - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XI: Compensation"
To save a bit from the pittance paid him - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
With reverie's wasteful pittance - James Russell Lowell "To C. F. Bradford on the Gift of a Meerschaum Pipe"
Poor.
Poverty.
Promissory:
Our garments soaked in promissory rain - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
Sharecropper:
Vines strong as a dozen sharecroppers - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"
A sharecropper of loneliness - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Madear Tests Positive"
Spendthrift.
Squalor:
Squalid toads at dusk were seen - Dr. Jenner (1810) "Signs of Rain" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 15, June 30, 1832]
Where privilege & squalor lived beneath the same ornate ceiling - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"
Squander.
Stint:
Punishment came without stint or delay - "Disobeying Mother" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
Weaving without stint or measure - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Usury:
And pay this bitter usury to atone - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The usury of honey - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
Worthless.
Navigation Links:
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Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
