Emily Dickinson used pearl imagery in some of her “smoking gun” poems, such as “Her breast is fit for pearls” & “The Malay - took the Pearl” (a queer analysis of this you can find here)

http://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-malaytook-pearl.html?m=1

http://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.com/2011/11/f121-1859-84.html?m=1

https://poemanalysis.com/emily-dickinson/she-rose-to-his-requirement-dropt/

https://criticalmethodsenglishf16.wordpress.com/2016/10/04/rubies-sapphires-and-pearls/