Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. Thomson.
Poor love is lost in men's capacious minds; / In women's it fills all the room it finds. John Crowne.
Poor men do penance for rich men's sins. It. Pr.
Poor men, when Yule is cold, / Must be content 35 to sit by little fires. Tennyson.
Poor men's tables are soon placed. Pr.
Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, / That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, / How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, / Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you / From seasons such as these? O I have ta'en / Too little care of this! Lear, iii. 2.
Poor tenant bodies, scant o' cash, / How they maun thole (bear) a factor's snash; / He'll stamp and threaten, curse and swear, / He'll apprehend them, poind their gear; / While they maun (must) stan', wi' aspect humble, / An' hear it a', and fear and tremble! Burns.
Poor the raiment you may wear, / Scanty fare at best be thine; / Let the soul within be clothed / With a majesty divine. M. W. Wood.
Poor though I am, despised, forgot, / Yet God, 40 my God, forgets me not; / And he is safe, and must succeed, / For whom the Lord vouchsafes to plead. Cowper.
Poor, wandering, wayward man! Art thou not tired, and beaten with stripes, even as I am? Ever, whether thou bear the royal mantle or the beggar's gaberdine, art thou so weary, so heavy-laden; and thy bed of rest is but a grave. Carlyle.