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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2012-08-03 11:22 pm

Potential Titles: Celebrations [category]

Anniversary
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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