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Aficionado:
An aficionado of the wilted, the shopworn, and the free - Ted Kooser "In the Alley
Agent.
Allegiance.
Ally.
Ambassador:
Sends assassins not ambassadors - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
Th' ambassadors of Hector and the Senate - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Ambassadors exchanging costly gifts - Dana Gioia "Three Drunk Poets"
An ambassador of the sun - Grace Nichols "Ode to a Daffodil"
Autocrat:
Upon the Book of Time the Autocrat has writ - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Bandit.
Barbarian.
Barkeeper:
'Til the Barkeep's out of ice - W.E. Christian "Pay Day"
Beldame:
Fuelled [sic] by a beldame's winter fire - Paul Cameron Brown "Sabbat"
Bigot:
Where bigot zeal should find no place - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Huguenot Fort"
Girt with Bigotry's besotted crew - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]
Bully.
Bureaucracy.
Bystander:
Bystanders back from the river of light - Charles Wright "I've Been Sitting Here Thinking Back Over My Life..."
Cabal:
This hot cabal of treasury bench - "The Ghost of Chatham"
Cadre:
A cadre of shame brandishing knives - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
Candidate:
A painful candidate for lasting fame - George Crabbe "The Library"
Catspaw:
A gamester's catspaw and a banker's slave - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]
Chancellor:
The Chancellor of the Wheat and Corn - James M'Carroll "A Royal Race"
Chaperone:
By the white swan chaperoned - D.M. Matheson "The Gardens"
The chaperone lingers at the adder's-tongue - Ellen Bryant Voigt "The Field Trip"
Chief.
Citizen.
Civilian:
Slowed down for civilian conversation - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"
Class:
Bored by classes on constellations we'll never see - Mary Alexandra Agner "Adero's Wheel"
After fame had classed them with the dead - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Away from this year's cubicle to night class - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"
To the poorest class of hope - Thomas Lynch "October"
Clerk:
Mindless clerks administering my life from afar - Paul Cameron Brown "Tussaud's"
Clique:
Idols of a petty clique - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"
Club.
Coalition:
Buoyed by your own coalition with the air - Ada Limon "How to Give Up"
Cohort.
Collaborator:
That jaded collaborator, daylight - Maxwell Bodenheim "Realism"
Collective.
Committee:
And escape the wrath of the committees - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
The committee for naming tornadoes - Matthew Zapruder "Schwinn"
Community:
Cross this ocean of liberation in community - Carol Ann Carl "I Remember"
Where community can constellate - Carol Ann Carl "I Remember"
Comrade.
Conclave:
In the midst of a dazzled conclave - C.S. Calverley "Flight"
Conference.
Convict:
The convict's melancholy king - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited
Have but made the convict half divine - Ralph Chaplin "The Vision Maker: To Eugene Victor Debs"
Their lawless deeds shall convict them - "The Wisdom of Solomon 4" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
Convocation:
Convocations of indispensable sisterhoods - Purvi Shah "You believed only a girl born of dandelion can be ferocious--"
Cop:
Hidden from the cop car sleeking innocently past - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"
Council:
Consigned, assembled, in secret councils held - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Hold a second council on this great emprise - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
In a nocturnal council have assembled - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The stern and lofty councils of despair - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"
Around the many Council fires - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "King Philip (Pometacom)"
A council of solemn dolls who try you - Edith Weaver "Lost Cinderella"
Courtesan:
Will deliver countries to the care of courtesans - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XC" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)
Crew.
Crowd.
Customer: See Custom.
Dastard:
May brand me with a dastard's name - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Thirst for vengeance on the dastard fox - U.T. "The College.--A Sketch in Verse" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
Demagogue:
Demagogue tongues that sow the dragon-teeth - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Democracy.
Denizen:
Where an ancient wrath is denizen - Arthur Colton "The Herb of Grace"
One of the earth-starred denizens - Seamus Heaney "Freedman"
Despot:
The despots in their stolen state - Tommaso Campanella "XXXII. To the Swiss" transl. by John Addington Symonds
All the despot's bolts and powers - Dugald Moore "Rise, My Love"
With despot snares behind them - "Remember Traitors" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Where your despot feet have led - Iris Tree "Flame"
Diaspora:
A thirst trap hinged on diaspora - Tarik Dobbs "Artist Statement"
A hall filled with a hungry diaspora - Feliz Lucia Molina "Paról"
a full moon in diaspora - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Rocket No. 9 To Venus"
the universe in diasphoric wailing - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Three Sulas"
Dictator: See Dictate.
Dolt:
Where every dolt has chronicled his folly - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Elite:
to be taught by the elite how to make a democracy - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins
Washington's elite that vowed to drown them - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
Embassy:
This joyous embassy convey - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The secrets of your lunar embassy - Dana Gioia "Pardon Me, Pilgrim"
In tender embassy of love - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"
In one rich embassy of gold - "The Summer"
Buzzing private embassies were sped - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Blameless Prince"
Emissary:
The emissary eglantine break wave round - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
They walked long as emissaries - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"
The emissaries of her will - John Hall Wheelock "The Secret One"
Emissaries drawn from near and far - Bree Wernicke "A Tour of the Blue Palace"
Enemy.
Envoy:
An envoy for the memory - Jenny Molberg "Fourth State of Matter"
Exile.
Expatriate:
Went telling of expatriate tears - T.M. Kettle "When Others See Us as We See Ourselves!"
The decadent ruin where expatriate gods live - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
Itinerant eyes in expatriate hearts - Sonia Sanchez "A Love Song for Spelman"
Faction.
Family Relationships [category].
Fellow/Fellowship.
Feminist:
The complicity of the scholars and the feminists - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"
Flower Girl:
The myth of flower girls selling futures - Carlie Hoffman "Memory of France"
Foe.
Folk.
Foreign.
Foreman:
Foreman's shack at the mining pool's edge - Jack Kin Lim "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends"
So vulgar it would make a foreman blush - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Friend.
Fugitive.
Gang:
Shredding the sky in their hooligan gangs - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"
Above the rude gang that he governs - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"
Graduate:
Past the toy town of the postgraduates - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"
Group.
Guard.
Guardian.
Guest.
Guild:
Just outside the hall of their ancient Guild - Henry S. Leigh "The Vision of the Alderman"
Herald.
Hierarchy.
Higher-Ups:
Suspect the higher-ups have hidden motives - Jen DeGregorio "No Isms Except Neologism"
Hobo:
Railroad tracks and hobo jungle - Mary Jo Bang "A Screen Door Slams"
Which keeps hobos poor and corporations rich - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Host.
Hostage.
Household:
Nobody in the widow's household ever celebrated anniversaries - Stanley Kunitz "Passing Through"
Morning wakes its household noises - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]
Lord of ten thousand households - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson
Of the shadow on the household - Robert Louis Stevenson "Christmas at Sea"
Immigrant:
Has failed every immigrant - Fatimah Asghar "A Starless Sky Is A Joy Too"
All of immigrants to this soil - Emanuel Xavier "Americano"
Judge/Judgment.
Juror/Jury:
The jury picked to hear your plea - Mike Allen "Lis Pendens"
Jurors surveying a crime scene - Colleen J. McElroy "The Lost Breath of Trees"
We'll try the rogue, by Judge and Jury - "The Trial and Execution of the Sparrow for Killing Cock Robin"
Landlady/Landlord:
Who with his landlord stands deuce high - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
and the landlady did not wake - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
Libertine:
A cross between a Jester and a Libertine - Oliver Herford "The Smoker's Year Book: March"
Longshoreman:
Danced the floors of cold longshoremen's halls - David St. John "Guitar"
Maid/Maiden.
Malcontent:
Rough-hewn hours of practice and malcontent - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"
Malcontents and mutineers - Charles Cotton "Contentation"
The alphabet for interrupters, malcontents - Carolina Ebeid "Wearing a Mask, Speaking into the Camera"
Master.
Mayor:
The sullen mayor who reigns in hell - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
Member:
A member of the fiasco survivor's club - Mary Jo Bang "A Sonata for Four Hands, II"
Reunited members of the unacknowledged - Jim Daniels "The Religious Significance of the Super Ball"
Migrant/Migration.
Minion.
Minister.
Mob.
Myrmidion:
The innumerable myrmidons of his empire - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Native.
Neighbor/Neighborhood.
Newborn.
Nomad.
Official:
Protected by official oblivion - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria E. Dweller of Heaven"
Treat with Nature in official pacts - George Meredith "My Theme: Continuation"
Oligarch:
Aimed against the oligarchs - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall
The oligarchs trampling the green - Marilyn Hacker "Ghazal (Ya Lateef!)"
Or made the Oligarchal Tyrants strong - Philo "The Tribute"
Outlaw.
Overlord:
Overlord of many kings - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Parliament:
Mute parliament of each thing - Robert Pinsky "The Dig"
Come out of the ocean in their parliamentary regalia - Dean Young "Quiet Grass, Green Stone"
Partisan:
A partisan witness to the uneasy union of life and loss - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
Feeding the partisans from frugal larders - Adrienne Rich "Char"
Passerby:
Encounter only Death, the Passer-by - William Theodore Peters "Death and Love"
We hand passers-by silk ribboned poems - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"
Patriot:
How could we ever be patriots? - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"
To exiled patriots vote their greeting - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]
Patron.
Pedestrian:
And aren't we all pedestrians of air? - Dean Young "Everyday Escapees" [Poetry April 2013]
People.
Person/Personal.
Physician:
Physician who cured not a few of ambition - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"
Sought physicians for histology - Katy Lederer "Mass Effect"
Then give place to the physician - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 38" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
Playmate.
Plot.
Police:
A gateway to emptiness policed by ghosts - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
The policeman's voice an aftershock - Joshua Bennett "Still Life with Toy Gun"
Police arriving at the edge of the mind - Tiffany Higgins "Samba in the Sky" [Poetry Nov. 2013]
Gives birth to another police procedural - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"
Posse:
A posse of ghosts chasing down life - Paul Bernstein "Night Mares: a Cinquain"
Postgraduate:
Past the toy town of the postgraduates - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"
President:
Absolute zero is stirring in the President's head - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"
Prime Minister:
Nations devised in the dreams of strange prime ministers - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Proletariat:
The bull of the proletariat - D.H. Lawrence "St Luke"
Prosecutor:
The prosecutor and defense of my own heart - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"
Protege:
Protege of trickster Hermes - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"
Proxy:
Someone has voted their proxies - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"
Proxy fays, false fauns and rascal gods - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Cast adrift by proxy on a vast black sea - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"
Public.
Quorum:
Made him her unruly quorum - Catherine Bowman "Provisional"
With six clever dogs for a quorum - Henry S. Leigh "'Oh Nights and Suppers,' Etc."
Ragamuffin:
Hedgerow waifs and ragamuffin strays - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"
Rally:
Jays and juncos rallied to see - Bruce Ducker "Picnic"
Ranks.
Rascal:
From such faithless rascals keep you free - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Most noble ladies, cherish your fair fame]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Proxy fays, false fauns and rascal gods - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Rebel/Rebellion/Rebellious.
Refugee.
Regime:
Turns out tempered resilience outlasts regimes - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"
Tortured by a regime that looks like you - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"
Every time the regimes change she will dance - Michael Dumanis "Sehnsucht"
Renegade:
A renegade fragment of the sun - Troy Jollimore "On the Origins of Things"
Sanctuary for renegades and shamans - Gregory Pardlo "Antebellum"
Resident:
A perpetual resident of cold endings - Camonghne Felix "Tonya Harding's Fur Coats"
Long-term resident predator of outer sheds - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"
Revolutionary.
Rogue.
Ruffian:
Ruffians dicing long beneath blurred candles - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two More Muses"
The bloody words of ruffian war - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)
Ruler.
Runaway:
Eyes me like a runaway - Amanda Johnston "Facing US"
Hidden passages, runaways, and orphaned days - Judy Jordan "Prologue"
Scapegoat:
Scapegoats of shore and hill - Helen Gray Cone "The Riddle of Wreck"
Sent scapegoat for your pride - Robert Graves "Return"
Secret Agent:
Let my ears go secret agent - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"
Senate:
The pomp of sacred senates - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Th' ambassadors of Hector and the Senate - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The applause of listening senates - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
Your Etna, your senate of dread - Donna Masini "Anxieties"
Seneschal:
The golden wall-flower stood like seneschal - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
Servant.
Sheriff:
Shall be sheriff of my tender zoo - CAConrad "Sharking of the Birdcage"
Spokesman:
A spokesman of the night - Wallace Stevens "Chocorua to Its Neighbor"
Student.
Subject.
Surgeon:
A surgeon of time attending to the inner workings - Danusha Laméris "The Watch"
Sycophants.
Team:
Quilt in the home team's colors - Hala Alyan "Turnpike // Ghost"
My team unyoked, my fallow unsown - "Eamonn an Chnuic, or 'Ned of the Hill'" transl. by P.H. Pearse
A load equal to what a hundred teams convey - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
With ox-teams great in the fall - Taras Shevchenko "Naimechka or The Servant" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Tetrarch:
Increased by kings and tetrarchs of the East - J.S.B. "Caesar" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXII, v.LXII, Aug. 1847]
Throng
Tour/Tourist.
Treaty.
Tribunal:
This fair tribunal of ambitious youth - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
Troupe:
In the middle of the troupe obscene - Charles Baudelaire "La Beatrice" transl. not credited
A troupe of exorcists - Catherine Chen "My Poem Asks to Be Read Right to Left"
Truant.
Tutor:
From experience, best of tutors - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The wild bird's untutored melodies - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"
With glamour-tutored tongue spread glory - James Allan Mackereth "Ioläus"
Tyrant.
Urchin:
Luckless urchin not to see - Thomas Moore "Cupid Once Upon a Bed"
Strain like urchins at the guardian ropes - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"
Vagabond.
Vagrant.
Victim.
Voluntary/Volunteer.
Votary:
What sort of god is Bacchus by his votaries deemed? - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Send numbers adapted to her votary's pains - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
That god the Bacchanalian votaries own - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
To see my faithful votaries ever blest - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The city where my Phrygian votaries dwelt - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The knaves own all her votaries for slaves - John Gay "Fable LXII: Pan and Fortune" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
An earnest votary of Evening - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Waitress:
the waitress takes moonbeams into her mouth - Lee Ballentine "Cryogenica"
Potential Titles: War/Combat/Military - People & Groups [category].
Ward/Warden/Warder.
Watchman.
Wayfellow:
My ancient way-fellows convene - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Witness.
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Aficionado:
An aficionado of the wilted, the shopworn, and the free - Ted Kooser "In the Alley
Agent.
Allegiance.
Ally.
Ambassador:
Sends assassins not ambassadors - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
Th' ambassadors of Hector and the Senate - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Ambassadors exchanging costly gifts - Dana Gioia "Three Drunk Poets"
An ambassador of the sun - Grace Nichols "Ode to a Daffodil"
Autocrat:
Upon the Book of Time the Autocrat has writ - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Bandit.
Barbarian.
Barkeeper:
'Til the Barkeep's out of ice - W.E. Christian "Pay Day"
Beldame:
Fuelled [sic] by a beldame's winter fire - Paul Cameron Brown "Sabbat"
Bigot:
Where bigot zeal should find no place - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Huguenot Fort"
Girt with Bigotry's besotted crew - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]
Bully.
Bureaucracy.
Bystander:
Bystanders back from the river of light - Charles Wright "I've Been Sitting Here Thinking Back Over My Life..."
Cabal:
This hot cabal of treasury bench - "The Ghost of Chatham"
Cadre:
A cadre of shame brandishing knives - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
Candidate:
A painful candidate for lasting fame - George Crabbe "The Library"
Catspaw:
A gamester's catspaw and a banker's slave - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]
Chancellor:
The Chancellor of the Wheat and Corn - James M'Carroll "A Royal Race"
Chaperone:
By the white swan chaperoned - D.M. Matheson "The Gardens"
The chaperone lingers at the adder's-tongue - Ellen Bryant Voigt "The Field Trip"
Chief.
Citizen.
Civilian:
Slowed down for civilian conversation - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"
Class:
Bored by classes on constellations we'll never see - Mary Alexandra Agner "Adero's Wheel"
After fame had classed them with the dead - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Away from this year's cubicle to night class - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"
To the poorest class of hope - Thomas Lynch "October"
Clerk:
Mindless clerks administering my life from afar - Paul Cameron Brown "Tussaud's"
Clique:
Idols of a petty clique - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"
Club.
Coalition:
Buoyed by your own coalition with the air - Ada Limon "How to Give Up"
Cohort.
Collaborator:
That jaded collaborator, daylight - Maxwell Bodenheim "Realism"
Collective.
Committee:
And escape the wrath of the committees - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
The committee for naming tornadoes - Matthew Zapruder "Schwinn"
Community:
Cross this ocean of liberation in community - Carol Ann Carl "I Remember"
Where community can constellate - Carol Ann Carl "I Remember"
Comrade.
Conclave:
In the midst of a dazzled conclave - C.S. Calverley "Flight"
Conference.
Convict:
The convict's melancholy king - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited
Have but made the convict half divine - Ralph Chaplin "The Vision Maker: To Eugene Victor Debs"
Their lawless deeds shall convict them - "The Wisdom of Solomon 4" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
Convocation:
Convocations of indispensable sisterhoods - Purvi Shah "You believed only a girl born of dandelion can be ferocious--"
Cop:
Hidden from the cop car sleeking innocently past - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"
Council:
Consigned, assembled, in secret councils held - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Hold a second council on this great emprise - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
In a nocturnal council have assembled - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The stern and lofty councils of despair - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"
Around the many Council fires - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "King Philip (Pometacom)"
A council of solemn dolls who try you - Edith Weaver "Lost Cinderella"
Courtesan:
Will deliver countries to the care of courtesans - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XC" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)
Crew.
Crowd.
Customer: See Custom.
Dastard:
May brand me with a dastard's name - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Thirst for vengeance on the dastard fox - U.T. "The College.--A Sketch in Verse" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
Demagogue:
Demagogue tongues that sow the dragon-teeth - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Democracy.
Denizen:
Where an ancient wrath is denizen - Arthur Colton "The Herb of Grace"
One of the earth-starred denizens - Seamus Heaney "Freedman"
Despot:
The despots in their stolen state - Tommaso Campanella "XXXII. To the Swiss" transl. by John Addington Symonds
All the despot's bolts and powers - Dugald Moore "Rise, My Love"
With despot snares behind them - "Remember Traitors" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Where your despot feet have led - Iris Tree "Flame"
Diaspora:
A thirst trap hinged on diaspora - Tarik Dobbs "Artist Statement"
A hall filled with a hungry diaspora - Feliz Lucia Molina "Paról"
a full moon in diaspora - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Rocket No. 9 To Venus"
the universe in diasphoric wailing - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Three Sulas"
Dictator: See Dictate.
Dolt:
Where every dolt has chronicled his folly - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Elite:
to be taught by the elite how to make a democracy - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins
Washington's elite that vowed to drown them - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
Embassy:
This joyous embassy convey - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The secrets of your lunar embassy - Dana Gioia "Pardon Me, Pilgrim"
In tender embassy of love - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"
In one rich embassy of gold - "The Summer"
Buzzing private embassies were sped - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Blameless Prince"
Emissary:
The emissary eglantine break wave round - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
They walked long as emissaries - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"
The emissaries of her will - John Hall Wheelock "The Secret One"
Emissaries drawn from near and far - Bree Wernicke "A Tour of the Blue Palace"
Enemy.
Envoy:
An envoy for the memory - Jenny Molberg "Fourth State of Matter"
Exile.
Expatriate:
Went telling of expatriate tears - T.M. Kettle "When Others See Us as We See Ourselves!"
The decadent ruin where expatriate gods live - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
Itinerant eyes in expatriate hearts - Sonia Sanchez "A Love Song for Spelman"
Faction.
Family Relationships [category].
Fellow/Fellowship.
Feminist:
The complicity of the scholars and the feminists - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"
Flower Girl:
The myth of flower girls selling futures - Carlie Hoffman "Memory of France"
Foe.
Folk.
Foreign.
Foreman:
Foreman's shack at the mining pool's edge - Jack Kin Lim "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends"
So vulgar it would make a foreman blush - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Friend.
Fugitive.
Gang:
Shredding the sky in their hooligan gangs - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"
Above the rude gang that he governs - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"
Graduate:
Past the toy town of the postgraduates - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"
Group.
Guard.
Guardian.
Guest.
Guild:
Just outside the hall of their ancient Guild - Henry S. Leigh "The Vision of the Alderman"
Herald.
Hierarchy.
Higher-Ups:
Suspect the higher-ups have hidden motives - Jen DeGregorio "No Isms Except Neologism"
Hobo:
Railroad tracks and hobo jungle - Mary Jo Bang "A Screen Door Slams"
Which keeps hobos poor and corporations rich - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Host.
Hostage.
Household:
Nobody in the widow's household ever celebrated anniversaries - Stanley Kunitz "Passing Through"
Morning wakes its household noises - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]
Lord of ten thousand households - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson
Of the shadow on the household - Robert Louis Stevenson "Christmas at Sea"
Immigrant:
Has failed every immigrant - Fatimah Asghar "A Starless Sky Is A Joy Too"
All of immigrants to this soil - Emanuel Xavier "Americano"
Judge/Judgment.
Juror/Jury:
The jury picked to hear your plea - Mike Allen "Lis Pendens"
Jurors surveying a crime scene - Colleen J. McElroy "The Lost Breath of Trees"
We'll try the rogue, by Judge and Jury - "The Trial and Execution of the Sparrow for Killing Cock Robin"
Landlady/Landlord:
Who with his landlord stands deuce high - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
and the landlady did not wake - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
Libertine:
A cross between a Jester and a Libertine - Oliver Herford "The Smoker's Year Book: March"
Longshoreman:
Danced the floors of cold longshoremen's halls - David St. John "Guitar"
Maid/Maiden.
Malcontent:
Rough-hewn hours of practice and malcontent - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"
Malcontents and mutineers - Charles Cotton "Contentation"
The alphabet for interrupters, malcontents - Carolina Ebeid "Wearing a Mask, Speaking into the Camera"
Master.
Mayor:
The sullen mayor who reigns in hell - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
Member:
A member of the fiasco survivor's club - Mary Jo Bang "A Sonata for Four Hands, II"
Reunited members of the unacknowledged - Jim Daniels "The Religious Significance of the Super Ball"
Migrant/Migration.
Minion.
Minister.
Mob.
Myrmidion:
The innumerable myrmidons of his empire - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Native.
Neighbor/Neighborhood.
Newborn.
Nomad.
Official:
Protected by official oblivion - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria E. Dweller of Heaven"
Treat with Nature in official pacts - George Meredith "My Theme: Continuation"
Oligarch:
Aimed against the oligarchs - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall
The oligarchs trampling the green - Marilyn Hacker "Ghazal (Ya Lateef!)"
Or made the Oligarchal Tyrants strong - Philo "The Tribute"
Outlaw.
Overlord:
Overlord of many kings - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Parliament:
Mute parliament of each thing - Robert Pinsky "The Dig"
Come out of the ocean in their parliamentary regalia - Dean Young "Quiet Grass, Green Stone"
Partisan:
A partisan witness to the uneasy union of life and loss - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
Feeding the partisans from frugal larders - Adrienne Rich "Char"
Passerby:
Encounter only Death, the Passer-by - William Theodore Peters "Death and Love"
We hand passers-by silk ribboned poems - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"
Patriot:
How could we ever be patriots? - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"
To exiled patriots vote their greeting - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]
Patron.
Pedestrian:
And aren't we all pedestrians of air? - Dean Young "Everyday Escapees" [Poetry April 2013]
People.
Person/Personal.
Physician:
Physician who cured not a few of ambition - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"
Sought physicians for histology - Katy Lederer "Mass Effect"
Then give place to the physician - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 38" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
Playmate.
Plot.
Police:
A gateway to emptiness policed by ghosts - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
The policeman's voice an aftershock - Joshua Bennett "Still Life with Toy Gun"
Police arriving at the edge of the mind - Tiffany Higgins "Samba in the Sky" [Poetry Nov. 2013]
Gives birth to another police procedural - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"
Posse:
A posse of ghosts chasing down life - Paul Bernstein "Night Mares: a Cinquain"
Postgraduate:
Past the toy town of the postgraduates - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"
President:
Absolute zero is stirring in the President's head - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"
Prime Minister:
Nations devised in the dreams of strange prime ministers - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Proletariat:
The bull of the proletariat - D.H. Lawrence "St Luke"
Prosecutor:
The prosecutor and defense of my own heart - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"
Protege:
Protege of trickster Hermes - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"
Proxy:
Someone has voted their proxies - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"
Proxy fays, false fauns and rascal gods - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Cast adrift by proxy on a vast black sea - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"
Public.
Quorum:
Made him her unruly quorum - Catherine Bowman "Provisional"
With six clever dogs for a quorum - Henry S. Leigh "'Oh Nights and Suppers,' Etc."
Ragamuffin:
Hedgerow waifs and ragamuffin strays - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"
Rally:
Jays and juncos rallied to see - Bruce Ducker "Picnic"
Ranks.
Rascal:
From such faithless rascals keep you free - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Most noble ladies, cherish your fair fame]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Proxy fays, false fauns and rascal gods - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Rebel/Rebellion/Rebellious.
Refugee.
Regime:
Turns out tempered resilience outlasts regimes - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"
Tortured by a regime that looks like you - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"
Every time the regimes change she will dance - Michael Dumanis "Sehnsucht"
Renegade:
A renegade fragment of the sun - Troy Jollimore "On the Origins of Things"
Sanctuary for renegades and shamans - Gregory Pardlo "Antebellum"
Resident:
A perpetual resident of cold endings - Camonghne Felix "Tonya Harding's Fur Coats"
Long-term resident predator of outer sheds - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"
Revolutionary.
Rogue.
Ruffian:
Ruffians dicing long beneath blurred candles - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two More Muses"
The bloody words of ruffian war - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)
Ruler.
Runaway:
Eyes me like a runaway - Amanda Johnston "Facing US"
Hidden passages, runaways, and orphaned days - Judy Jordan "Prologue"
Scapegoat:
Scapegoats of shore and hill - Helen Gray Cone "The Riddle of Wreck"
Sent scapegoat for your pride - Robert Graves "Return"
Secret Agent:
Let my ears go secret agent - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"
Senate:
The pomp of sacred senates - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Th' ambassadors of Hector and the Senate - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The applause of listening senates - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
Your Etna, your senate of dread - Donna Masini "Anxieties"
Seneschal:
The golden wall-flower stood like seneschal - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
Servant.
Sheriff:
Shall be sheriff of my tender zoo - CAConrad "Sharking of the Birdcage"
Spokesman:
A spokesman of the night - Wallace Stevens "Chocorua to Its Neighbor"
Student.
Subject.
Surgeon:
A surgeon of time attending to the inner workings - Danusha Laméris "The Watch"
Sycophants.
Team:
Quilt in the home team's colors - Hala Alyan "Turnpike // Ghost"
My team unyoked, my fallow unsown - "Eamonn an Chnuic, or 'Ned of the Hill'" transl. by P.H. Pearse
A load equal to what a hundred teams convey - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
With ox-teams great in the fall - Taras Shevchenko "Naimechka or The Servant" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Tetrarch:
Increased by kings and tetrarchs of the East - J.S.B. "Caesar" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXII, v.LXII, Aug. 1847]
Throng
Tour/Tourist.
Treaty.
Tribunal:
This fair tribunal of ambitious youth - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
Troupe:
In the middle of the troupe obscene - Charles Baudelaire "La Beatrice" transl. not credited
A troupe of exorcists - Catherine Chen "My Poem Asks to Be Read Right to Left"
Truant.
Tutor:
From experience, best of tutors - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The wild bird's untutored melodies - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"
With glamour-tutored tongue spread glory - James Allan Mackereth "Ioläus"
Tyrant.
Urchin:
Luckless urchin not to see - Thomas Moore "Cupid Once Upon a Bed"
Strain like urchins at the guardian ropes - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"
Vagabond.
Vagrant.
Victim.
Voluntary/Volunteer.
Votary:
What sort of god is Bacchus by his votaries deemed? - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Send numbers adapted to her votary's pains - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
That god the Bacchanalian votaries own - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
To see my faithful votaries ever blest - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The city where my Phrygian votaries dwelt - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The knaves own all her votaries for slaves - John Gay "Fable LXII: Pan and Fortune" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
An earnest votary of Evening - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Waitress:
the waitress takes moonbeams into her mouth - Lee Ballentine "Cryogenica"
Potential Titles: War/Combat/Military - People & Groups [category].
Ward/Warden/Warder.
Watchman.
Wayfellow:
My ancient way-fellows convene - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Witness.
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