Potential Titles: Celebrations [category]
Aug. 3rd, 2012 11:22 pmAnniversary
Other anniversaries of near misses - Julia Alvarez "Death Days"
Nobody in the widow's household ever celebrated anniversaries - Stanley Kunitz "Passing Through"
The anniversary of some future sadness - Charles Rafferty "Unnoticed"
Bacchanal.
Birthday.
Carnival.
Celebrate.
Circus.
Coronation
Desperate for the meadow's coronation - Chris Dombrowski "Self-Portrait as Dandelion Head Discovered in the Crop of a Partridge"
Each day is coronation time - Vachel Lindsay "The Dandelion"
A cap and bells for Folly's coronation - Iris Tree "Flame"
Dance.
Festal
Festal rites that blessed the soil - Maurice Baring "Harvest in Russia"
Tumults of a festal throng - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
Festival.
Fete:
Soft dawns that danced a shadow fete - Donald Evans "Buveuse d'Absinthe"
Fireworks.
Frolic.
Gaiety:
Gaslight and Gaiety, beam for a while - Henry S. Leigh "A Cockney's Evening Song"
Holiday.
Jamboree:
For a jamboree was gowned - Vachel Lindsay "John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston"
words jetting out like jamboree - Porsha Olayiwola "Notorious"
Jubilee.
Marriage/Marry.
Masque
Fauns who pass in mocking masque among the trees - Mona Gould "You Being Dead (For J.R.T.)"
The masque of revelry and song - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Cast away the masquing garb of hollow Day - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Why so prodigal of masque and music - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta VIII: The Accusation"
Masquerade.
Nuptial:
The nuptials of flowers and the marriage of streams - Giosue Carducci "To Aurora" transl. by Frank Sewall
Pageant.
Parade.
Party.
Revel/Revelry.
Romp:
Nags whose foals romped among stars - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
A romp of otter-uttered blessings - Mahogany L. Browne "I Remember Death by its Proximity to What I Love"
Out in the greenwood to romp and play - L.A.B.C. "Our May-Day at the South" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
Saturnalia:
Held the saturnalia of Red Death - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"
Spree.
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Other anniversaries of near misses - Julia Alvarez "Death Days"
Nobody in the widow's household ever celebrated anniversaries - Stanley Kunitz "Passing Through"
The anniversary of some future sadness - Charles Rafferty "Unnoticed"
Bacchanal.
Birthday.
Carnival.
Celebrate.
Circus.
Coronation
Desperate for the meadow's coronation - Chris Dombrowski "Self-Portrait as Dandelion Head Discovered in the Crop of a Partridge"
Each day is coronation time - Vachel Lindsay "The Dandelion"
A cap and bells for Folly's coronation - Iris Tree "Flame"
Dance.
Festal
Festal rites that blessed the soil - Maurice Baring "Harvest in Russia"
Tumults of a festal throng - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
Festival.
Fete:
Soft dawns that danced a shadow fete - Donald Evans "Buveuse d'Absinthe"
Fireworks.
Frolic.
Gaiety:
Gaslight and Gaiety, beam for a while - Henry S. Leigh "A Cockney's Evening Song"
Holiday.
Jamboree:
For a jamboree was gowned - Vachel Lindsay "John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston"
words jetting out like jamboree - Porsha Olayiwola "Notorious"
Jubilee.
Marriage/Marry.
Masque
Fauns who pass in mocking masque among the trees - Mona Gould "You Being Dead (For J.R.T.)"
The masque of revelry and song - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Cast away the masquing garb of hollow Day - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Why so prodigal of masque and music - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta VIII: The Accusation"
Masquerade.
Nuptial:
The nuptials of flowers and the marriage of streams - Giosue Carducci "To Aurora" transl. by Frank Sewall
Pageant.
Parade.
Party.
Revel/Revelry.
Romp:
Nags whose foals romped among stars - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
A romp of otter-uttered blessings - Mahogany L. Browne "I Remember Death by its Proximity to What I Love"
Out in the greenwood to romp and play - L.A.B.C. "Our May-Day at the South" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
Saturnalia:
Held the saturnalia of Red Death - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"
Spree.
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.