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And I'll wear it like bones, like skin - Kim Addonizio "What Do Women Want?"

Wear your earrings around my wrist - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Limbs"

Never a better the Queen might wear - "Agnes and the Merman" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

History wearing the face of family - Julia Alvarez "Museo del Hombre"

Will wear your cruelty into grief - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Bridge"

Wearing away a hole in my heart - Abduweli Ayup "Mihray" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Triumphant wear a crown of light - B. "Two Pictures: Love Celestial" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Wearing the very heavens - Devan Barlow "Dear Charles Perrault"

wear down my sorrow - Elizabeth Bartlett "guadalajara"

Wear this ancient armour of belonging - Kimberly Blaeser "A Quest for Universal Suffrage"

Wearing gray coats and monochromatic expressions - Bruce Boston "Gray People"

Wear your moment of dusk - Julia Bouwsma "I Walk My Road at Dusk"

Wear silence as a tattered shirt - Julia Bouwsma "Interview with the Dead"

The last poor tatters the forests wear - Marie Hedderwick Browne "When Love Is Young"

Silence alone wears majesty - Witter Bynner "The Last Words of Tolstoi"

Wear this falsehood in his soul - Walter Richard Cassels "Beatrice di Tenda"

Wear a different face to each atrocity - Jesus Castillo "Untitled"

His ghost wears our raincoats - Marianne Chan "Cebu City"

Wearing a river's disguise - Leonard Cohen "Take this Waltz"

Burst their manacles and wear the name - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "France: An Ode, 1797"

And I will wear gems for your sake - Olive Custance "Gifts"

And nature's self wear mourning - Sir William Davenant "The Dying Lover"

Soon I shall wear scarlet - Coningsby Dawson "Vanished Love"

Wear themselves ruthless for a sounding name - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

The break of day that wears a shining dew decked diadem - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Poem [Ah, I know what happiness is....]"

Every building wears a milk-white dome - Mrs. Elizabeth Dimond "After a Snow Storm"

The careless grace my Perseus wears - Edward Dowden "Andromeda"

Wearing nothing but snakeskin boots - Ansel Elkins "Autobiography of Eve"

Wearing the century's dark caul - Claudia Emerson "Atlas"

To wear the yoke of conscience - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Park"

A hundred horizons wearing a thousand crowns - Sandy Florian "Abacus"

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

Wears a feather of flame - Zona Gale "Umbra"

Had learned to wear the crown of sorrow - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"

Wear your tinsel bright and bravely - Mona Gould "Small Christmas Tree (For F.G.)"

Wear Virgo's diamond in your hair - John Grey "Skywatching"

The hill wearing water - Nathalie Handal "Dor"

Wear a thornless crown - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LIII"

Wearing glee & sadness - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin"

Sometimes lyrics wear a blindfold - Terrance Hayes "Liner Notes for an Imaginary Planet"

Desolation wears a smile - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"

I wear water as my blue apron - Carlie Hoffman "Memory of France"

To make a robe you'll wear ten thousand miles - Hsieh Hui-Lien "Fulling Cloth for Clothes" transl. by Burton Watson

Wearing a steadfast floral crown - Carly Inghram "For a Moment, Everything Is Small and Familiar"

Wear our shame like an ocean - Carly Inghram "Of No Specific Light"

Should wear the martyr's robe of flame - John Keble "Fire"

Every Hyacinth the Garden wears - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Wear only Death's livid, dreadful white - Joyce Kilmer "The White Ships and the Red"

Wearing a crown of overtowering rage - Hyejung Kook "Spring Coronal"

With smiles that mock the wearer - Henry Lawson "Faces in the Street"

Wearing a swimsuit on Thursday - Aimee Le "That Girl"

Wears a touch of the picturesque - Henry S. Leigh "The Diligence Driver"

Wildcats and wolves wearing the hats of men - Li Po "Poem No.19 in the Old Manner" transl. by Burton Watson

Wear the epitaph of one of your old suits - Gary Copeland Lilley "Unmarked Grave"

Where nobody wears any insignia - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"

Wearing her changeable season - Ada Limon "The Bird Knows He Is Going to Die and Wishes Not To"

Wearing last year's sunbeams - Sandra J. Lindow "The Theater for Cloud Repair"

Wear the mask of dream - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"

Wearing its constant colors unchanged - Lu Yu "The Stone on the Hilltop" transl. by Burton Watson

To break the chain that sorrow wears - Arthur Macy "All on a Golden Summer Day"

Wearing moonstones for slippers - Mahadeviyakka [Untitled] transl. by A. K. Ramanujan

Wearing the crimson mantle of the sun - George Martin "Aspiration"

That sad embroidery wears - John Milton "Lycidas"

What a torturer wears to a press conference - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"

Tell me what color I should wear to a funeral - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"

The chains that wounded spirits wear - Morna "Ianthe"

Must wear the hue and coldness of despair - Morna "Ianthe"

Wear a coat of hope and desire - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"

Tyranny wears orange trappings - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"

Swans who wear and break a chain - E. Nesbit "[The swans along the water glide]"

Wearing the sky - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Tent"

Each of us wears a shadow - Mary Oliver "The Pond"

Wearing a little necklace of blood pearls - Gregory Orr "The Teeth of Sleep"

Wearing shower bouquets of rue - Dorothy Parker "Ballade at Thirty-Five"

And wear their house as a crown - Kailee Pedersen "Aviary"

Herons wearing the moonrise like lace - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"

Wearing the moonrise - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"

Each face wears fear differently - Carl Phillips "As the Rain Comes Down Harder"

Honors which wear their glories for a day - Philo "The Tribute"

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

The Dead men all wear shoes - John Prine

An a white scarf he did wear - anonymous? "Proud Lady Margaret"

So shall Charybdis wear a grace - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Splendid Spur"

I wear their writhing roots across my scalp - Molly Raynor "A Dressed Up Potato Is Still a Potato (Yiddish Proverb)"

That wear no shadow on their nakedness - Lola Ridge "Sonnet (To E.S.)"

To wear so high a mood - Alice Wellington Rollins "October"

And she wears seaweed in her hair - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"

Bunch of roses she shall wear - "Rosy Apple, Lemon, or Pear"

Wearing wild red roses on her tongue - Alison Rumfitt "Romance of Possible Contrasts"

Wearing her best crow feathers - Elly Luisa Salah "Wedding Party ... Featuring, My Mother"

Wears a rainbow for a crown - George Santayana "Athletic Ode"

Wear the garment of its sorrow - George Santayana "Premonition"

Who wears a glory of Orions twined around her brow - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited

Wearing helmets of eternal snows - Frederick George Scott "Natura Victrix"

And wear their brave state out of memory - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XV"

Wearing a jacket of blood - Brenda Shaughnessy "Nachtraglichkeit"

All the threads of earth wear to the breaking - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

And taught King Lear how to wear a crown of straw - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger

That wears this hour like a crown - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

Wearing decay like diadems - A.E. Stallings "Tulips"

Robes of asbestos do we wear - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"

Wear thin with vast summer - Mary Szybist "Taiment"

An indifference I could wear - Mary Szybist "What the World Is For"

Could wear blood like apples do - Mary Szybist "Withdrawal"

All the clothes which outward nature wears - Henry David Thoreau "The Inward Morning"

Wear a wreath of fading flowers - J.A. Tinnon "I'll Blame Thee Not"

The courtesy of who wears a flower - Luis Lloréns Torres "Bolivar" transl. by Muna Lee

Wear my sadness like a coat - Kristen Tracy "About Myself"

Yet wear a crown of hazy dream - Iris Tree "[The caravans of spring are in the town]"

Wear a diadem of Wisdom's towers - Henry van Dyke "Urbs Coronata"

The shell the scuttling beetle wears - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "In the Grass" transl. by James Edward Tobin

Weaves the one self she wears - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"

Shall wear their robes of praise - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"

Wear its deep impress of changes - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

What we wear to hide ourselves - Katie Willingham "When I Ask the Internet if the Sun Is a Ball of Fire"

Done with wearing gold words upon my heart - Humbert Wolfe "Dedication [for Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton]"

Wears that sky like a thin gold mask - Elinor Wylie "Sunset on the Spire"

Today you wear the cold - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today"

My heart wears you like curtains - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today"

Wear away with silent beat - Zitkála-Šá "Iris of Life"


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