Potential Titles: Poor
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somethingdarkerHis poor thin thread of voice - Harold Acton "Trepak"
Poor planning lets fate devour the happy story - Mary Alexandra Agner "Sleeping Beauty"
Too poor to mend - Willis Boyd Allen "Pauses and Clauses'
This poor kettle, clay to all spears - Stephen Vincent Benet "Grand Larceny"
A silver lining of a poor sort - Jenny Blackford "Beneath the Wheeler Centre"
Poor spectres of the perished spring - Emily Bronte "A Day Dream"
The poor old books that nobody reads - Abbie Farwell Brown "Poor Old Books" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Time was a poor keeper of souls - Paul Cameron Brown "Dry Guillotine"
The last poor tatters the forests wear - Marie Hedderwick Browne "When Love Is Young"
The poor side of silence - Leonard Cohen "You're Not Supposed to Be Here"
Break the bread of shivers among your poor - Andrea Cote "Somber Bull" transl. by Craig Epplin
Till life's poor transient night is spent - Cowper "Nightingale and Glow-worm" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 11, June 2, 1832]
Poor, troubled, lyric ghost - Countee Cullen "To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time"
Some chosen detritus boiling in a poor man's pot - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"
That mocked the poor sparrows - Walter de la Mare "I Saw Three Witches"
Until the dreams of millionaires are clothing for the poor - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"
Some poor Ariel penanced in the rock - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"
Poor wanderer on the deep - William Falconer "To a Swallow that Dropped on Deck During a Storm at Sea"
Its poor array of tattered flags - John Gould Fletcher "Evening Sky"
Dry river and tents of the outcast poor - Dana Gioia "Psalm for Our Lady Queen of the Angels"
Like poor sheep marked for the slaughter - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Steal coins from the rich, food from the poor - Theodora Goss "Rumpelstiltskin"
To tax the poor plutocrat out of existence - Harry Graham "What's in a Name?"
By the poor guard of danger set about - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Poor earthbound ember - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"
Gather up the poor, pale shreds - Margaret Houston "Aftermath"
Which keeps hobos poor and corporations rich - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
When my poor heart you first beguiled - "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Poor Art with struggling gasp - James Weldon Johnson "Art vs. Trade"
And wake poor sobbing Echo - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Oft let me wander hand in hand with Thought]"
The poor bread of your sorrow - Ted Kooser "Lobocraspis griseifusa"
Poor remorses and vain tears - Archibald Lampman "With the Night"
The poor waters spill the stars - D.H. Lawrence "In a Boat"
To the poorest class of hope - Thomas Lynch "October"
The poorest serf who fears a tyrant's nod - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]
A fixed doom that mocks our poor resistance - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things II: Song" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
A poor little festival in the suburbs of my soul - Maurice Maeterlinck "The Soul" transl. by Bernard Miall
Weary of their poor tribes - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid
The gates of my poor heart - Meredith Nicholson "My Lady of the Golden Heart"
Too poor to bless, too weak to sting - J.G. Percival "To a Belle" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
When the poor heart seizes its desire - Alice Wellington Rollins "Longing"
Poor harvest gathered in - Christina Rossetti "The Hour and the Ghost"
In this poor mousetrap of a hold - John Russell "The Old Viking" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.115-v.III, 13 March 1886]
Strange winds directed my poor aim - Leonora Speyer "Saul! Saul!"
While the poor get all the thunder - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Diamond Wedding"
And music all too poor - George Sterling "You Are So Beautiful"
From this poor broken twilight to rebuild the Dawn - Arthur Stringer "Sappho in Leucadia"
A poor bewildered clown - Iris Tree "Nerves"
So poor is this season - Jenny Xie "Long Nights"
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Poor planning lets fate devour the happy story - Mary Alexandra Agner "Sleeping Beauty"
Too poor to mend - Willis Boyd Allen "Pauses and Clauses'
This poor kettle, clay to all spears - Stephen Vincent Benet "Grand Larceny"
A silver lining of a poor sort - Jenny Blackford "Beneath the Wheeler Centre"
Poor spectres of the perished spring - Emily Bronte "A Day Dream"
The poor old books that nobody reads - Abbie Farwell Brown "Poor Old Books" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Time was a poor keeper of souls - Paul Cameron Brown "Dry Guillotine"
The last poor tatters the forests wear - Marie Hedderwick Browne "When Love Is Young"
The poor side of silence - Leonard Cohen "You're Not Supposed to Be Here"
Break the bread of shivers among your poor - Andrea Cote "Somber Bull" transl. by Craig Epplin
Till life's poor transient night is spent - Cowper "Nightingale and Glow-worm" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 11, June 2, 1832]
Poor, troubled, lyric ghost - Countee Cullen "To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time"
Some chosen detritus boiling in a poor man's pot - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"
That mocked the poor sparrows - Walter de la Mare "I Saw Three Witches"
Until the dreams of millionaires are clothing for the poor - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"
Some poor Ariel penanced in the rock - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"
Poor wanderer on the deep - William Falconer "To a Swallow that Dropped on Deck During a Storm at Sea"
Its poor array of tattered flags - John Gould Fletcher "Evening Sky"
Dry river and tents of the outcast poor - Dana Gioia "Psalm for Our Lady Queen of the Angels"
Like poor sheep marked for the slaughter - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Steal coins from the rich, food from the poor - Theodora Goss "Rumpelstiltskin"
To tax the poor plutocrat out of existence - Harry Graham "What's in a Name?"
By the poor guard of danger set about - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Poor earthbound ember - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"
Gather up the poor, pale shreds - Margaret Houston "Aftermath"
Which keeps hobos poor and corporations rich - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
When my poor heart you first beguiled - "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Poor Art with struggling gasp - James Weldon Johnson "Art vs. Trade"
And wake poor sobbing Echo - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Oft let me wander hand in hand with Thought]"
The poor bread of your sorrow - Ted Kooser "Lobocraspis griseifusa"
Poor remorses and vain tears - Archibald Lampman "With the Night"
The poor waters spill the stars - D.H. Lawrence "In a Boat"
To the poorest class of hope - Thomas Lynch "October"
The poorest serf who fears a tyrant's nod - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]
A fixed doom that mocks our poor resistance - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things II: Song" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
A poor little festival in the suburbs of my soul - Maurice Maeterlinck "The Soul" transl. by Bernard Miall
Weary of their poor tribes - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid
The gates of my poor heart - Meredith Nicholson "My Lady of the Golden Heart"
Too poor to bless, too weak to sting - J.G. Percival "To a Belle" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
When the poor heart seizes its desire - Alice Wellington Rollins "Longing"
Poor harvest gathered in - Christina Rossetti "The Hour and the Ghost"
In this poor mousetrap of a hold - John Russell "The Old Viking" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.115-v.III, 13 March 1886]
Strange winds directed my poor aim - Leonora Speyer "Saul! Saul!"
While the poor get all the thunder - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Diamond Wedding"
And music all too poor - George Sterling "You Are So Beautiful"
From this poor broken twilight to rebuild the Dawn - Arthur Stringer "Sappho in Leucadia"
A poor bewildered clown - Iris Tree "Nerves"
So poor is this season - Jenny Xie "Long Nights"
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