Potential Titles: Penny

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Held horses for a stingy penny - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

The bitter pennies that I saved - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

Tattered cap held for the pennies - Ellen Tracy Alden "The Banjo"

Slip his silver penny into your pocket - Richard Aldington "The Poplar"

The penny dropped ends its run - Alise Alousi "Forgiveness is the smell of crushed flowers"

A bad penny landing same side up - Rachel Barenblat "Chord"

Your pennies are gathered - Maxwell Bodenheim "Portraits. VII: Old Actor"

That buys pennies from time - Witter Bynner "The New World VIII"

Scrambling for pennies in that patch of clay - Will Carleton "Wealth"

A drowsy penny in the belt of Venus - Meg Day "10 AM is When You Come to Me"

What can you buy for a penny there? - Salomón de la Selva "A Song for Wall Street"

Those penny-ante Xanadus - Boris Dralyuk "Bargain Circus"

Silent as those pennies - John Olivares Espinoza "Economics at Gemco"

Sweetly drifting on thick tides of oil and pennies - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"

Throw no copper pennies in the dust - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Three Poems of Christmas Eve: Christ"

Our Cressy's too have dwindled since to penny things - Thomas Hood "A Lament for the Decline of Chivalry" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

Hums and ticks like a washed penny - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Curiosities"

Its gullet is full of pennies - Aimee Le "American Poetry/The Age of Hypocrisy, Part II"

A government crushing ambitions into pennies - Marisa Lin "Tiananmen Square, 1989"

Old pockets that smell of pennies - Angela Liu "The Final Trick"

A penny from the passing crowd - John Masefield "On Growing Old"

Made from my last pennies - Adrian Matejka "I Say the Thing for the First Time"

The small fire of pennies - Susan Nguyen "The Body as a Series of Questions"

Any penny of applauding hands - Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C. "The Dead Musicians"

And the shine isn't just pennies - Mary Oliver "Maples"

Not worth a bent penny - Mary Oliver "West Wind 2"

Watched them fall like dull pennies - Rachel Pittman "The Quickening"

Pennies for passage - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"

And a penny for each eye - Nancy Price "Trick or Treat"

And only found pennies - Kenyatta Rogers "Labyrinth"

prison made of emerald & pennies - Danez Smith "C.R.E.A.M."

Ten thousand pounds to one penny - "The Three Children" [Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories (ed. by Hamilton Wright Mabie, William Byron Forbush, and Edward Everett Hale). 1927]

And yet, for it all, not a penny to pay - Nancy Byrd Turner "Apple-Tree Inn" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Who cost not a penny for food - "Wonders of a Toy-Shop"


Those penny-ante Xanadus - Boris Dralyuk "Bargain Circus"

Third cousins of the penny press - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

And frugal housewives, strictly pennywise - Stephen Vincent Benet "Les Cruches Cassees"

Of bread one pennyworth - "Father Prout's Inaugurative Ode: To the Author of "Vanity Fair""


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