Adorn.
Potential Titles: Art/Craft [category].
Badge:
Merit badge in grief - Rachel Barenblat "Change"
Badge of the bondage he's destined to - Anthony Euwer "Spring--1919"
Bear no badge of roses or of rue - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"
Bauble:
Baubles of stolen kisses - Maya Angelou "When You Come to Me"
This cheat that uses us as baubles - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
Each bright bauble by ambition prized - Thomas Gent "Prometheus"
Band.
Bead.
Belt.
Bracelet.
Braid.
Brocade.
Brooch:
Pull off, pull off, the brooch of gold - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Lady Clare"
Cloak held fast by Psyche's brooch - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday X: Case Sensitive"
Buckle.
Button.
Carcanet:
Of all rich gems in Virtue's carcanet - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: II"
Chain.
Charm.
Circlet:
The circlet woven of his soul's final art - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
The circlet of your praise - Edward Dowden "Love-Tokens"
Gift my rings as circlets of celestial flowers - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
Long circlets of silver moving - William Carlos Williams "January Morning"
Clasp.
Clip.
Potential Titles: Cloth/Fabric [category].
Potential Titles: Cloth/Fabric/Fiber - Things Made From [category].
Potential Titles: Clothing [category].
Potential Titles: Color [category].
Comb.
Coronet.
Crown.
Diadem.
Drag:
Full of drag queens & revolutionaries - Diane di Prima "City Lights 1961"
Earring:
Wear your earrings around my wrist - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Limbs"
Jewelry box for lone earrings - Julie Babcock "Singles"
The jangle of onyx earrings dangling - Lou Barrett "Once and Sixteen"
Embroidery.
Epaulette:
The deep-green forests of that epauletted century - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Fan.
Fashion.
Feather.
Flower.
Potential Titles: Flowers [category].
Fragrance.
Fringe.
Garland.
Gaudy.
Gem.
Gild.
Gilt.
Glamor/Glamour.
Glass.
Glitter.
Haircut:
Bad haircuts and sloppy tailors - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"
Hair Dye:
Allergic to hair dye and silver - Hala Alyan "Truth"
Hairpin:
Stir the fire with my hairpin of jade - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall
Dizzied among hairpin turns - Hai-Dang Phan "Canto for the Chestnut-Eared Laughingthrush"
Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth - Carl Sandburg "Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind"
Tortoiseshell hairpins with a pair of pearls - "There's Someone I Think Of" transl. by Burton Watson
Halo.
Headdress:
Bring me my headdress of black feathers - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Headpiece:
His elaborate head-piece of smoke - Dana Levin "The Gods Are in the Valley"
Insignia:
All the insignia of interiority - Dan Chiasson "Thread"
Time's grey insignia - Arthur Colton "The House"
Where nobody wears any insignia - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"
Blazon me with jeweled insignia - Amy Lowell "Apology"
Jewel/Jewelry.
Lace.
Lipstick.
Locket:
I put the sky into my pocket, and the sea into my locket - James Stephens "The Gombeen-Man"
Carry decades of lockets shaped like metal hearts - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"
Manicure:
With her manicure of ice - Lynn Powell "Alberta Clipper"
Her manicured nails were of glass - Sofia Samatar "The Death of Araweilo"
Mascara:
Leaving the pit with their mascara still immaculate - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Mask.
Potential Titles: Matter - Specific Substances [category].
Medal:
When medals shine upon my breast - Augusta A.L. Magra "The Roll-Call of Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.731, 29 Dec. 1877]
Medallion:
A medallion hung around his neck - Martin Espada "Breve Pausa"
A gold medallion for her suffering - June Jordan "Poems for One Little Girl Blue"
Potential Titles: Metals [category].
Mother-of-Pearl:
Of mother-of-pearl and moonshine made - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"
Necklace.
Necklet:
Seven bead-strings and necklets seven - "The Vision of Mac Conglinne"
Oil.
Ornament.
Pearl.
Pendant/Pendent:
The pendant gold of necklaced summer - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"
Hung with pendent stalactites like frozen vines - Amy Lowell "A Fairy Tale"
Perfume.
Perm:
With ankles of oak and a bullet-proof perm - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Pin.
Plume.
Polish.
Powder.
Regalia:
Villainous fellows for War's regalia - Herbert E. Palmer "The Bushrangers"
Different phases of full moon regalia - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"
Ribbon.
Ring.
Potential Titles: Rocks - Pretty Ones [category].
Ruffle.
Sceptre/Scepter.
Sequin.
Signet:
The Southern Cross shimmering like a signet of hope - Christopher Buckley "Desire"
The signet of the grave - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XL"
Shave.
Soap.
Spangle.
Spur.
Stud.
Style.
Sunglasses:
Famous in his sunglasses and blazer - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"
Twin vortices in her black sunglasses - Sofia Samatar "The Death of Araweilo"
Tassel.
Tattoo.
Tiara:
tiara of sunbeads, scepter of starlight - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"
The tiaraed brows of darkness - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"
Tinsel.
Trim.
Trinket.
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Potential Titles: Art/Craft [category].
Badge:
Merit badge in grief - Rachel Barenblat "Change"
Badge of the bondage he's destined to - Anthony Euwer "Spring--1919"
Bear no badge of roses or of rue - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"
Bauble:
Baubles of stolen kisses - Maya Angelou "When You Come to Me"
This cheat that uses us as baubles - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
Each bright bauble by ambition prized - Thomas Gent "Prometheus"
Band.
Bead.
Belt.
Bracelet.
Braid.
Brocade.
Brooch:
Pull off, pull off, the brooch of gold - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Lady Clare"
Cloak held fast by Psyche's brooch - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday X: Case Sensitive"
Buckle.
Button.
Carcanet:
Of all rich gems in Virtue's carcanet - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: II"
Chain.
Charm.
Circlet:
The circlet woven of his soul's final art - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
The circlet of your praise - Edward Dowden "Love-Tokens"
Gift my rings as circlets of celestial flowers - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
Long circlets of silver moving - William Carlos Williams "January Morning"
Clasp.
Clip.
Potential Titles: Cloth/Fabric [category].
Potential Titles: Cloth/Fabric/Fiber - Things Made From [category].
Potential Titles: Clothing [category].
Potential Titles: Color [category].
Comb.
Coronet.
Crown.
Diadem.
Drag:
Full of drag queens & revolutionaries - Diane di Prima "City Lights 1961"
Earring:
Wear your earrings around my wrist - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Limbs"
Jewelry box for lone earrings - Julie Babcock "Singles"
The jangle of onyx earrings dangling - Lou Barrett "Once and Sixteen"
Embroidery.
Epaulette:
The deep-green forests of that epauletted century - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Fan.
Fashion.
Feather.
Flower.
Potential Titles: Flowers [category].
Fragrance.
Fringe.
Garland.
Gaudy.
Gem.
Gild.
Gilt.
Glamor/Glamour.
Glass.
Glitter.
Haircut:
Bad haircuts and sloppy tailors - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"
Hair Dye:
Allergic to hair dye and silver - Hala Alyan "Truth"
Hairpin:
Stir the fire with my hairpin of jade - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall
Dizzied among hairpin turns - Hai-Dang Phan "Canto for the Chestnut-Eared Laughingthrush"
Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth - Carl Sandburg "Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind"
Tortoiseshell hairpins with a pair of pearls - "There's Someone I Think Of" transl. by Burton Watson
Halo.
Headdress:
Bring me my headdress of black feathers - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Headpiece:
His elaborate head-piece of smoke - Dana Levin "The Gods Are in the Valley"
Insignia:
All the insignia of interiority - Dan Chiasson "Thread"
Time's grey insignia - Arthur Colton "The House"
Where nobody wears any insignia - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"
Blazon me with jeweled insignia - Amy Lowell "Apology"
Jewel/Jewelry.
Lace.
Lipstick.
Locket:
I put the sky into my pocket, and the sea into my locket - James Stephens "The Gombeen-Man"
Carry decades of lockets shaped like metal hearts - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"
Manicure:
With her manicure of ice - Lynn Powell "Alberta Clipper"
Her manicured nails were of glass - Sofia Samatar "The Death of Araweilo"
Mascara:
Leaving the pit with their mascara still immaculate - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Mask.
Potential Titles: Matter - Specific Substances [category].
Medal:
When medals shine upon my breast - Augusta A.L. Magra "The Roll-Call of Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.731, 29 Dec. 1877]
Medallion:
A medallion hung around his neck - Martin Espada "Breve Pausa"
A gold medallion for her suffering - June Jordan "Poems for One Little Girl Blue"
Potential Titles: Metals [category].
Mother-of-Pearl:
Of mother-of-pearl and moonshine made - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"
Necklace.
Necklet:
Seven bead-strings and necklets seven - "The Vision of Mac Conglinne"
Oil.
Ornament.
Pearl.
Pendant/Pendent:
The pendant gold of necklaced summer - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"
Hung with pendent stalactites like frozen vines - Amy Lowell "A Fairy Tale"
Perfume.
Perm:
With ankles of oak and a bullet-proof perm - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Pin.
Plume.
Polish.
Powder.
Regalia:
Villainous fellows for War's regalia - Herbert E. Palmer "The Bushrangers"
Different phases of full moon regalia - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"
Ribbon.
Ring.
Potential Titles: Rocks - Pretty Ones [category].
Ruffle.
Sceptre/Scepter.
Sequin.
Signet:
The Southern Cross shimmering like a signet of hope - Christopher Buckley "Desire"
The signet of the grave - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XL"
Shave.
Soap.
Spangle.
Spur.
Stud.
Style.
Sunglasses:
Famous in his sunglasses and blazer - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"
Twin vortices in her black sunglasses - Sofia Samatar "The Death of Araweilo"
Tassel.
Tattoo.
Tiara:
tiara of sunbeads, scepter of starlight - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"
The tiaraed brows of darkness - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"
Tinsel.
Trim.
Trinket.
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.