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A city dressed for evening or earthquake - Mary Jo Bang "The Year Chases its Tail"

sleep dresses itself and wakes - Elizabeth Bartlett "measured interval"

Dressed in nothing but the archive's bleached light - Tommye Blount "Karl Lagerfeld's line of beauty"

Dressed in occasional novelty - Maxwell Bodenheim "Feminine Talk"

Scatter myself empty as a torn dress - Julia Bouwsma "Lottie Marks Dreams Escape"

A dress made of hymns - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"

The eyes in terrors dressed - Patrick Bronte "Journeying for the Recovery of His Health"

Dresses your life in the tidiest wallpaper - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"

A fitting shroud to match my wedding dress - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"

In brass and scarlet dressed - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life LVI: Melodies Unheard"

Enabled by his royal dress - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XLI"

And leaves that should be dressed in black - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Merry Autumn"

The heavy dress of history - Heid E. Erdich "She Dances"

Dressed fancy in ivy and pride - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"

Eternal thought in me puts on the dress of time - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

In that dress of time and on that stage of space - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

Wearing a quill dress of hours - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen b"

Raising the river's black dress - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 6"

Dressed in leather and Kevlar - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"

Wine and fruit in fragrant dress - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

Each word dressed for burial - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"

I shall not weep when you go but don a scarlet dress - Mona Gould "Promise"

Dress with glory and clear jewels - David Gray "Despondency"

Less dazzling in her twilight dress - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Twilight"

Handsome and dressed in evening - Nathalie Handal "Elsie"

Where southern vines are dressed - Felicia Dorothea Hemans "The Graves of a Household"

Who wear feathers when dressed up to kill - Oliver Herford "The Harpy"

That head of curling snakes to dress - Oliver Herford "Medusa"

Disappeared into sound dressed in gray - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"

Burning in Lent's black-bordered dress - Emily Pauline Johnson "Easter"

Dress you in the foam of apricot shampoo - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

Because the black dresses sit unwashed - Holly Karapetkova "Holiday"

Dress my uncertain path with green - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

A doll dress'd up for idleness - John Keats "Modern Love"

So unimpeachably correct in morals and in dress - Henry S. Leigh "Over the Water"

Full of mildew and brocaded dresses - Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe "The Lay of the Sheriff"

Two metric heretics dressed like crows - Adrian Matejka "16 Bars Poetica"

Inside the carapace of dress - Claire Millikin "The Unpopular Dress"

Ashes dressed up like Medusa - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Dressed in immense perfume - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Dressed in chains and carnations - Pablo Neruda "The Dawn's Debility" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Dressed in gray and bitter sounds - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems IX" translated by W.S. Merwin

Who dressed herself in purple lightning - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Dressed in silence and yellow - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly

Dressed the honeysuckle in fringe of gold - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

Dressed in snowflakes - Mary Oliver "Praise"

Dress myself in desolation - Mary Oliver "Rhapsody"

Where the stars are dressed in light - Mary Oliver "That Tall Distance"

To dress all in red and blood - Eva Papasoulioti "Red Rite"

Had dressed me in silk to meet him - Dorothy Parker "The Trifler"

In a dress made of flames - Xan Forest Phillips "Captivity Lessons"

The fire's wake dressed in ash - Xan Forest Phillips "Classification and Dissection"

Good and bad like rhinestones dressing up inevitability - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"

Rhinestones dressing up inevitability - Marisca Pichette "Are You A Good Witch"

In the veil of cobwebs dressed - Miriam Clark Potter "Rain-on-the-Roof"

Have a salad dressed with moonbeams - Tim Pratt "Wolfways"

Wearing the white dress of sanctuary - "Presence" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]

A dress of potato peels, a gown of garlic cloves - Molly Raynor "A Dressed Up Potato Is Still a Potato (Yiddish Proverb)"

The dress you danced in yesterday - Ernest Rhys "A Song of Happiness"

Dressed with a kindly quilt - Adrienne Rich "Rauschenberg's Bed"

My spirit in its dress of stillness - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

To dress the scene of revels loud - Mrs. Mary Robinson "All Alone"

Let a Fury borrow lyre, notes, and dress - Friedrich Schiller "The Muses' Revenge"

Salvaged buttons off vanished dresses - James Marcus Schuyler "A Poem [Tags of songs]"

Sleepwalkers dressed as soldiers - Charles Simic "Childhood Story"

Dress me in guilt - Danez Smith "say it with your whole black mouth"

Dressed in Eden's green apron - May Swenson "That the Soul May Wax Plump"

Clad all in mourning dresses - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

In rouge and ribbons dressed - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The Dead Nation"

The naked trees dressed of air - Edwin Torres "Air Is Sham for Light"

Dressed me in velvet dignities - Iris Tree "[Loneliness I love]"

In Pleasure's borrowed dress - Melesina Trench "On Being Pressed to Go to a Masqued Ball not Many Months After the Death of My Child"

A mirror-creature in a red dress - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Maize in golden colors dressed - Arthur Weir "The Oak"

No keening women in grim dresses - Amie Whittemore "Spell for the End of Grief"

The season trees begin to dress for death - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"

Dressed in your robe of experience - Nancy Wood "Wisdom of the Elders"

In a dress made of laughing glass - Matthew Zapruder "Never Before"


Though all expressiveness seems overdressed - Natalie Clifford Barney "Apology"

Patience in the form of gravity overdressed - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"


Redressing grief's worst wrongs - Algernon Swinburne "Benediction"


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