Famous quotes containing the word poor:
“And many a poor man that has roved,
Loved and thought himself beloved,
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Of all mortals, some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“What of the heart without her? Nay, poor heart,
Of thee what word remains ere speech be still?
A wayfarer by barren ways and chill,
Steep ways and weary, without her thou art,
Where the long cloud, the long woods counterpart,
Sheds doubled darkness up the labouring hill.”
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti (18281882)
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