Potential Titles: Scant/Scanty

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Scant with lean ears of harvest - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Scant wine from grapes of pain - T.A. Daly "To a Thrush"

Too lifted for the scant degree - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXIV: Too Much"

From his pack's scant treasure - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"

Where scant flowers bloom - Emily Lawless "From the Burren IX: To that Rare and Deep-Red Burnet-Moth Only to Be Met with in the Burren"


In thy scanty mantle clad - Robert Burns "To a Mountain Daisy"

By scanty fruit and tardy grain - Susan Coolidge "The Legend of Kintu"

Shared our scanty meal in bitterness or glee - E.B. Impey "The Savoyard" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20 no.573, Oct. 27, 1832]

Circling the track of my scanty bread - Katri Vala "Winter Is Here" transl. by Jaakko A. Ahoksas

Spread a scanty board too late - John Greenleaf Whittier "Greeting"

No riches from his scanty store - Helen Maria Williams "A Song"


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