Potential Titles: Poor

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His 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 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"

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"

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"

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"

To the poorest class of hope - Thomas Lynch "October"

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]

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"

When the poor heart seizes its desire - Alice Wellington Rollins "Longing"

Poor harvest gathered in - Christina Rossetti "The Hour and the Ghost"

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"

A poor bewildered clown - Iris Tree "Nerves"

So poor is this season - Jenny Xie "Long Nights"


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