Potential Titles: Wore/Worn
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I wore the bitterness from it long ago - Lewis Alexander "Transformation" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Who wore the ghosts of his beloved - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
The scowl my father wore in exile - Julia Alvarez "Museo del Hombre"
Wore nothing but the moonlight - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Wore her whiskey like a loaded gun - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Revelled in cobwebs the twisted staircase wore - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Ghost House"
Wore pieces of my personal sun - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
The shoes Jack Giant-killer wore - James Beattie "Epistle to the Honourable C. B."
The wind wore sandals - Hilda Conkling "Autumn Song"
Ere I wore proud chains of diamonds, forged of bitter, frozen tears - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "Ethel: Fitz Fashion's Wife" [The Continental Monthly v.III - April, 1863 - no.IV]
Wore his coffin for a hat - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For a Pessimist"
Wore scars and rashes like empirical clothes - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"
The gold in using wore away - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XVII: The Wife"
Who wore the crown of Persia - Julia C.R. Dorr "Vashti's Scroll"
That wore a mocking shy disguise - Mona Gould "Traitor"
E'en Nature's smile a bitter mockery wore - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Sat down and wore the wind's coat - Katerina Iliopoulou "Cape Tenaron" transl. by Jackson Watson
The motley that his sorrow wore - Richard Le Gallienne "Saint Charles"
Hope never wore a brighter brow - Leila "Stanzas" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
The cloud wore sunshine - Vachel Lindsay "The Fairy Circus"
Wore a smile only I could see - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
The dove wings gray she wore - Jeannette Marks "Blind Sleep"
Did reject my thorns who wore my roses - Philip Bourke Marston "From Afar" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Oct. 1880]
The same mauve petals my grandmother wore - jessica Care moore "She Was"
Wore as sheath and shield - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To See"
Wore a suit of woven water - Kiki Petrosino "In Louisa"
Wore the rose of pain - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Wore her hair short like a scream - Alberto Rios "Refugio's Hair"
Her myrtle chains have worn - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Left on the shelf with worn ballet slippers - Rebecca Bennett "Eurydice Stands with Attitude"
With a sandstone faith still worn - Rebecca G. Biber "Artichoke"
Little ships that are too worn for sailing - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne of the Wharves"
Across worn pavements crumbling to decay - Frank Oliver Call "Through a Long Cloister"
Their worn shoes scratch against the paths of stone - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"
Weak and worn with my inquiring - Giosue Carducci "A questi di prima io la vidi. Uscia" transl. by Frank Sewall
This sleeve of ice worn by a branch - James Crews "Awe"
My worn reeds broken - Walter de la Mare "The Scribe"
The worn steel of belt-hooked hammers - Chris Dombrowski "The Roofers Listen to Heart's "Crazy on You" as They Work"
Opened the worn doors of his eyes - Chris Dombrowski "They Tied the Madmen to Trees Beside the River and All the Shrinks Went Out of Business"
The termites have worn jagged roads - Evelyn Flores "The Flame Tree"
On history's worn stone steps - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen n"
On the worn book of old-golden song - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"
Old robes worn for new beginnings - Dana Gioia "Autumn Inaugural"
My heart is cold, and withered, and worn - J.C.H. "Long Ago" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.736, 2 Feb. 1878]
When beauty's trace is worn away - George Moses Horton "Memory"
And scars are worn for honor - Jean Ingelow "Songs of the Night Watches, Concluding Song of Dawn: A Morn of May"
My soul is quite a worn and frazzled rag - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Not for joy the worn mountain stands - Robinson Jeffers "Joy"
The plodding mind worn down by life's thick grind - Fenton Johnson "Puck Goes to Court" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Shoes never worn enough to be worth the price - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
In tedium of worn refrain - Hailey Leithauser "Apologia"
Used-up plantations worn and dry - Charles G. Leland "The Last Ditch" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
This mask I've worn too long has become my face - Judy I. Lin "a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú"
Like night in a country of worn fields - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: [It creeps through like night]"
Of thorns and petals never worn - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
The wounds of worn passions she brings - William Moore "Dusk Song"
A path of gold on stones worn grey - K. Mounsey "To a Little House in Oxford"
Wounded with fierce desire and worn with strife - Sarojini Naidu "Life"
Worn with long journeyings - John Oxenham "Livingstone the Builder"
Spoke worn words to hallow my sleep - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph"
Stones worn smooth with patience - Kiki Petrosino "Message from the Free Smiths of Louisa County"
All pathways by His feet are worn - Joseph Plunkett "I See His Blood Upon the Rose"
A rust-colored rosary worn from prayer - Danni Quintos "Breast Pain"
A pleasanter face than is worn by the truth - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
The frail moon worn to a silvery tissue - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Take our worn souls Home - James Whitcombe Riley "Out of the Hitherwhere"
Worn with spent emotion - Alice Wellington Rollins "Confession"
Countless corridors worn slick as glass - Ann K. Schwader "Climate of Fear"
Death can empty a house of shoes worn and new - Margo Taft Stever "For Sale"
And be worn in the conqueror's hall - G.P.T. "Thaptopsis" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Worn smooth by precedent - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"
Only a scrap of paper, old and worn - H.K.W. "Lines Written After Perusing a Letter Written by Robert Burns" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.737, 9 Feb. 1878]
Sharp spines worn smooth by wind - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Seashell"
Worn with long monotonies of pain - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"
Watched from widow's walks worn thin - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Iron"
Worn against the years - William Carlos Williams "History"
And careworn brows forget - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper "Songs for the People"
Shadows on the foot-worn threshold fall - Rainer Maria Rilke "Initiation" transl. by Jessie Lemont
With its wild midnight orgies overworn - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
A salt-worn dream-anchor - Terrance Hayes "Anchor Head"
An aficionado of the wilted, the shopworn, and the free - Ted Kooser "In the Alley"
By many a storm-worn stone - E.J. Bronte "The Outcast Mother"
On the timeworn pavement - Alun "Tintern Abbey" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Wild legends hang about these time-worn stones - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
As a time-worn stone - Denis Florence MacCarthy "A Lament"
Among the weather-worn shards - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard V: The Return"
Up the same well-worn path - Angelina Weld Grimke "The Eyes of My Regret"
Wear Out/Worn Out/Outwear.
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I wore the bitterness from it long ago - Lewis Alexander "Transformation" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Who wore the ghosts of his beloved - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
The scowl my father wore in exile - Julia Alvarez "Museo del Hombre"
Wore nothing but the moonlight - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Wore her whiskey like a loaded gun - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Revelled in cobwebs the twisted staircase wore - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Ghost House"
Wore pieces of my personal sun - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
The shoes Jack Giant-killer wore - James Beattie "Epistle to the Honourable C. B."
The wind wore sandals - Hilda Conkling "Autumn Song"
Ere I wore proud chains of diamonds, forged of bitter, frozen tears - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "Ethel: Fitz Fashion's Wife" [The Continental Monthly v.III - April, 1863 - no.IV]
Wore his coffin for a hat - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For a Pessimist"
Wore scars and rashes like empirical clothes - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"
The gold in using wore away - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XVII: The Wife"
Who wore the crown of Persia - Julia C.R. Dorr "Vashti's Scroll"
That wore a mocking shy disguise - Mona Gould "Traitor"
E'en Nature's smile a bitter mockery wore - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Sat down and wore the wind's coat - Katerina Iliopoulou "Cape Tenaron" transl. by Jackson Watson
The motley that his sorrow wore - Richard Le Gallienne "Saint Charles"
Hope never wore a brighter brow - Leila "Stanzas" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
The cloud wore sunshine - Vachel Lindsay "The Fairy Circus"
Wore a smile only I could see - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
The dove wings gray she wore - Jeannette Marks "Blind Sleep"
Did reject my thorns who wore my roses - Philip Bourke Marston "From Afar" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Oct. 1880]
The same mauve petals my grandmother wore - jessica Care moore "She Was"
Wore as sheath and shield - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To See"
Wore a suit of woven water - Kiki Petrosino "In Louisa"
Wore the rose of pain - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Wore her hair short like a scream - Alberto Rios "Refugio's Hair"
Her myrtle chains have worn - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Left on the shelf with worn ballet slippers - Rebecca Bennett "Eurydice Stands with Attitude"
With a sandstone faith still worn - Rebecca G. Biber "Artichoke"
Little ships that are too worn for sailing - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne of the Wharves"
Across worn pavements crumbling to decay - Frank Oliver Call "Through a Long Cloister"
Their worn shoes scratch against the paths of stone - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"
Weak and worn with my inquiring - Giosue Carducci "A questi di prima io la vidi. Uscia" transl. by Frank Sewall
This sleeve of ice worn by a branch - James Crews "Awe"
My worn reeds broken - Walter de la Mare "The Scribe"
The worn steel of belt-hooked hammers - Chris Dombrowski "The Roofers Listen to Heart's "Crazy on You" as They Work"
Opened the worn doors of his eyes - Chris Dombrowski "They Tied the Madmen to Trees Beside the River and All the Shrinks Went Out of Business"
The termites have worn jagged roads - Evelyn Flores "The Flame Tree"
On history's worn stone steps - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen n"
On the worn book of old-golden song - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"
Old robes worn for new beginnings - Dana Gioia "Autumn Inaugural"
My heart is cold, and withered, and worn - J.C.H. "Long Ago" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.736, 2 Feb. 1878]
When beauty's trace is worn away - George Moses Horton "Memory"
And scars are worn for honor - Jean Ingelow "Songs of the Night Watches, Concluding Song of Dawn: A Morn of May"
My soul is quite a worn and frazzled rag - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Not for joy the worn mountain stands - Robinson Jeffers "Joy"
The plodding mind worn down by life's thick grind - Fenton Johnson "Puck Goes to Court" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Shoes never worn enough to be worth the price - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
In tedium of worn refrain - Hailey Leithauser "Apologia"
Used-up plantations worn and dry - Charles G. Leland "The Last Ditch" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
This mask I've worn too long has become my face - Judy I. Lin "a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú"
Like night in a country of worn fields - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: [It creeps through like night]"
Of thorns and petals never worn - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
The wounds of worn passions she brings - William Moore "Dusk Song"
A path of gold on stones worn grey - K. Mounsey "To a Little House in Oxford"
Wounded with fierce desire and worn with strife - Sarojini Naidu "Life"
Worn with long journeyings - John Oxenham "Livingstone the Builder"
Spoke worn words to hallow my sleep - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph"
Stones worn smooth with patience - Kiki Petrosino "Message from the Free Smiths of Louisa County"
All pathways by His feet are worn - Joseph Plunkett "I See His Blood Upon the Rose"
A rust-colored rosary worn from prayer - Danni Quintos "Breast Pain"
A pleasanter face than is worn by the truth - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
The frail moon worn to a silvery tissue - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Take our worn souls Home - James Whitcombe Riley "Out of the Hitherwhere"
Worn with spent emotion - Alice Wellington Rollins "Confession"
Countless corridors worn slick as glass - Ann K. Schwader "Climate of Fear"
Death can empty a house of shoes worn and new - Margo Taft Stever "For Sale"
And be worn in the conqueror's hall - G.P.T. "Thaptopsis" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Worn smooth by precedent - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"
Only a scrap of paper, old and worn - H.K.W. "Lines Written After Perusing a Letter Written by Robert Burns" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.737, 9 Feb. 1878]
Sharp spines worn smooth by wind - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Seashell"
Worn with long monotonies of pain - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"
Watched from widow's walks worn thin - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Iron"
Worn against the years - William Carlos Williams "History"
And careworn brows forget - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper "Songs for the People"
Shadows on the foot-worn threshold fall - Rainer Maria Rilke "Initiation" transl. by Jessie Lemont
With its wild midnight orgies overworn - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
A salt-worn dream-anchor - Terrance Hayes "Anchor Head"
An aficionado of the wilted, the shopworn, and the free - Ted Kooser "In the Alley"
By many a storm-worn stone - E.J. Bronte "The Outcast Mother"
On the timeworn pavement - Alun "Tintern Abbey" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Wild legends hang about these time-worn stones - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
As a time-worn stone - Denis Florence MacCarthy "A Lament"
Among the weather-worn shards - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard V: The Return"
Up the same well-worn path - Angelina Weld Grimke "The Eyes of My Regret"
Wear Out/Worn Out/Outwear.
Navigation Links:
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Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
