The land lies desolate and stripped; Across its waste has thinly strayed A tattered host of eucalypt. From whose gaunt uniform is made A ragged penury of shade.

-Adams, Arthur Henry
  'Written in  Australia', in The Collected Verses of  Arthur H Adams.

In all labour there is profit: but thetalkof the lips tendeth only to penury.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs14:23.

But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

-Gray,Thomas
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.49^52.