Potential Titles: Clothing [category]

Ankle Boots:
The ankle boots of an idea gone missing - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"

Apparel:
The apparel of life and empire - Fernando Pessoa "Antinous"

Apparelled for a conqueror's reign - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet IV"

Puts apparel on my tatter'd loving - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVI"

Apron.

Armor.

Attire:
An assassin attired all in garb of old days - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

In the scorching attire of a November day - Pablo Neruda "Cristobal Miranda (Shoveler, Tocopilla)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

And the year in fresh attire - Ambrose Philips "To the Honourable Miss Carteret"

Belt.

Bib:
Stone children in bibs and hats - Dana Levin "Zozo-ji"

Blazer:
Famous in his sunglasses and blazer - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"

Bodice:
Our bodices with love-knots laced - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"

Bonnet:
Earth's golden bonnet of the day - Jeannette Marks "Blind Sleep"

Boots.

Buckle.

Business Suit:
Watched God wandering the station in a business suit - T.R. Hummer "After"

Button.

Cap.

Cape:
Calamity his cape - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For a Pessimist"

Flourished the stained cape of his heart - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 4. Summer 1969"

Lest moths pillage my velvet capes - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"

Casque: see Helm/Helmet.

Cestus:
The cestus with enchantment fraught - Benjamin West Ball "To D.S.H."

Chaplet.

Cloak.

Cloth/Clothes/Clothing.

Coat.

Collar:
an instruction manual on how to collar the uncontrollable - Mckendy Fils-Aimé "on superstitions"

Bells on the collar of an invisible donkey - Carl Phillips "Entire Known World So Far"

Costume:
Into costumes of the past - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

my costumes made of blood - Grace Iwashita-Taylor "Default Taupou"

Honor this costume of sleep - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 11PM"

Cowl:
Their meek breath scenting the cowl of winter - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"

Cravat:
In tight cravat and shiny tile - Henry S. Leigh "The Lord Mayor's Apotheosis"

Crinoline:
Measuring the crinolines of leaves - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"

Dress/Undress.

Fatigues:
fatigues borrowed from some dead comrade - Elliott Dunstan "Inherited Battlefield"

Fishnets:
Siphoning memory like gas through fishnets - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"

Garb.

Garment.

Gauntlet.

Gear:
Jesters in funeral gear - Edwin Torres "Terra Quad"

Girdle.

Glove.

Gown.

Hat.

Helm/Helmet.

Hood.

Jacket.

Kerchief:
Fold the kerchiefs into herons - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

Kid Glove:
Through a tunnel of kid gloves and landmines - Fady Joudah "The Poem as Epiphyte"

Kirtle:
In your kirtle of borrowed skies - Maxwell Bodenheim "Young Poet"

Knee Highs:
They've got a blade in their knee highs - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"

Livery.

Mail.

Mantle.

Mask.

Mitten.

Moccasin:
The doom's electric moccason [sic] - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXVI: The Storm"

Negligee:
A negligee of gnats - Saeed Jones "Boy in a Stolen Evening Gown"

Nightgown:
Cells nightgowned in moon - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"

Overcoat:
A black overcoat for the soul - Robert Bly "How Mirabai Did Not Care"

Made of earth and sea his overcoat - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XX"

Her overcoat continuing to thin - Lynne Thompson "St. Valentine, Bishop of Terni, probably beheaded, was also the patron saint of asthma, beekeepers, and epilepsy, so he might have said"

Pinafore:
pinafore pockets full of oyster shells - Pattie McCarthy "a woman peeling apples, with a small child"

Pocket.

Raiment.

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

Robe.

Sandal.

Sash:
Fashion a sash of heliotrope - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

in a hot-scarlet sash - James Whitcombe Riley "The Circus Parade"

Scarf.

Shawl.

Shirt:
Fanged house, shirt of flame - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"

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

Coatless and a shirt of briar - Saeed Jones "After the First Shot"

Across the shirt of the icy firmament - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Seagull" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Shod/Shoe.

Silk Tie:
Their silk ties and their secret economies - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"

Skirt.

Sleeve.

Slipper.

Snowshoe:
Snowshoes bite the trail open - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"

Socks:
Harbinger of blankets and socks - Hailey Leithauser "Jiminy"

Wish for socks of moss - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Moss"

A silk windsock of snow blowing - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"

Suit.

Surgical Mask:
Feudalism never ended, it just put on a surgical mask - Gabriel Cortez "Upon Hearing Your Building is up for Sale"

Sweater.

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

Toga:
Togas of worm-eaten mud - Pablo Neruda "Revolutions" transl. by Alastair Reid

Tutu:
Bears in tutus will spin - David Tomas Martinez "Calaveras Section 2"

Tuxedo:
So weak in my feather tuxedo - Wendy Xu "Notes on Sentence Crossing"

Uniform:
The stiffening uniform of fame - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

So many boys imprisoned in uniforms - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "I never knew of such a place]"

Veil.

Vest.

Vestment:
An angel in love's vestment clad - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Waistcoat:
Shining bright as Lucifer's waistcoat - Joshua Bennett "First Date"

Wallet.

Wedding Dress:
A fitting shroud to match my wedding dress - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"

Winding Sheet:
Winter wrapped them in a winding sheet - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]


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Potential Titles: Cloth/Fabric [category]

Acrylic:
The softest acrylic sunny day - Andrea Potos "Crocheting in December"

Buckskin:
Wrapped in buckskin and silver - Joy Harjo "Kansas City"

Cambric:
The slanting, cambric curtain of his soul - Maxwell Bodenheim "An Old Man Humming a Song" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Canvas.

Cashmere:
Green cashmere sweaters on top of the glass - Natalie Goldberg "Home"

Chiffon:
Chiffon, gauze, and tinsel - Conrad Aiken "Dancing Adairs"

Chintz:
Chintz that blinks with dragon's eyes - Stephen Vincent Benet "Les Cruches Cassees"

Cloth/Clothes/Clothing.

Cloth of Gold:
Spices, fine linen, and cloth of gold - Laurens Maynard "Ave Post Saecula"

Cotton.

Damask:
Clouds of white linen and storm-black damask - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

The purple damask of their scales - Li Po "In Reply When Lesser Officials of Chung-tu Brought a Pot of Wine and Two Fish to My Inn as Gifts" transl. by Burton Watson

Glow voluptuous of the damask rose - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Fabric.

Felt:
The thick felt of the mist's white hood - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Fishermen" transl. by Alma Strettell

The felt mat seats us shoulder to shoulder - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson

Flannel:
Flannel and furs to keep yourself warm - Mrs. Sale Barker "The Robin's Song"

With scarlet flannel round - Zona Gale "Violin"

Tie a red flannel string around your waist - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"

Silk zigzagged to flannel - Richard Solomon "Possession I: Blanky"

Flax.

Fleece.

Gauze.

Gossamer.

Hemp:
Wild paths through mulberry and hemp - The Buddhist Priest Chiao-jan "Looking for Lu Hung-chien but Failing To Find Him" transl. by Burton Watson

Sun warm on mulberry and hemp - Su Tung-p'o "[Soft grasses, a plain of sedge]" transl. by Burton Watson

The flaxen hemp still plaits its chain - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell

Lace.

Lawn:
Break through your veils of lawn - Sir William Davenant "The Lark Now Leaves His Watery Nest"

Leather.

Linen.

Mesh.

Muslin:
Scares muslin souls away - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXXIV"

Paper muslin ghost - Marianne Moore "Pedantic Literalist"

Rag.

Ribbon.

Ruffle.

Sack/Sackcloth.

Samite:
The swan of samite blood - Philip Lamantia "The Islands of Africa"

Whose samite masks veil little more than entropy - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"

Sarcenet:
Her lips unlocked your sarcenet line - Noel Quiñones "Orange"

Satin.

Silk.

Strap:
A mesh of leather straps and danger - Pablo Neruda "Guayaquil (1822)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Suede:
When the clouds have turned to suede - Diane DeCillis "Ingratiating the Monster"

Taffeta:
A taffeta of cold air - dg nanouk okpik "Inupiaq Women"

Textile:
With analogue, textile eyes - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Loom"

Velvet.

Velour:
In pink velours and pea green checks - Oliver Herford "John S. Sargent"

Velveteen:
Sang copper into velveteen shells - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"

Wool.


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Arras:
In the wind of night the arras swells and swings - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Lurks no ghost behind the arras - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]

And shadows on the arras flit - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

The blue arras of nightmare - Iris Tree "Moods II"

Backpack:
In waves of backpacks and barrel fires - Jace Deangelo "Wide-Shining Craters"

Bag.

Bandage.

Bedclothes:
Folded in the bedclothes of night - R.B. Lemberg "In the Third Cycle"

Blanket.

Briefcase:
Carrying briefcases full of bats - Frank Stanford "Politicians"

Brocade.

Canopy.

Carpet.

Cloth/Clothes/Clothing.

Cloth/Fabric [category].

Clothing [category].

Counterpane:
A daisied counterpane weave - Richard Le Gallienne "To a Dead Friend"

Coverlet:
Weaves a coverlet of dust - George Sterling "Old Anchors"

Time's ashen coverlet - Iris Tree "[Woods of brown gloom sombring with the hush of death]"

Curtain.

Cushion:
Cushioned between two storms - Mary Jo Bang "The Beauties of Nature"

using the fog's opaque cushion - Vi Khi Nao "Fog"

In proton loops, on cushioned air - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

Drape/Drapery.

Duffel Bag:
Duffel bags of ancestors - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Alphabetical Flash"

Duvet:
The duvet built in honey - CM Burroughs "The Wait"

Eye-Patch:
Eye-patches and clockwork hands - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Things Lost"

Flag.

Hammock:
Midnights hammocked in unrest - Natalie Clifford Barney "More Night!"

Making hammocks out of figs and accidents - Jennifer Chang "Freedom in Ohio"

A hammock of memories swinging - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"

Hand-Me-Down:
That my hand-me-down is out of style - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Handkerchief:
Salt rubbed out with a handkerchief - Ira Sadoff "A Few Surprising Turns"

Knapsack:
Knowledged strapped down like a knapsack - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"

His knapsack of sunshine - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "A Bobolink's Song"

To carry in your knapsacks death - Thomas O'Hagan "Louvain"

Laundry:
A lifetime's heap of laundry - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Over the crumpled bodies of laundry - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"

The brew in the alchemist's laundry room - Rober Frazier "Primer to Impractical Magic"

Mat.

Mattress:
Mica embedded in a mattress of slate - Mary Jo Bang "Hotel Incognito"

Napkin:
Unfolded trust from its cloth napkin - Christopher Kondrich "Trust"

Net.

Parachute:
Drifting down through the dissolving parachutes - Duane Ackerson "Infinite Zero"

Swinging upon Time's parachute - Harold Acton "Invocation"

Shredded the parachutes to confetti in celebration - C. A. Conrad "Frank"

The only parachutes we need - Jenn Givhan "Of Color of Landscape of Tenuous Rope"

Parasol:
Sad as summer parasols in a hurricane - Maya Angelou "Forgive"

Parasol of amber grief - Lucie Brock-Broido "Portrait of Lucy with Fine Nile Jar"

Patch.

Pennon:
The pennons of morning advance - Don Marquis "A Rhyme of the Roads"

Pillow.

Pleat:
The mushroom's black underpleats - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"

Pocketbook:
A pocketbook full of bone readers - Tyree Daye "There's a Whole Lot of Love round Here"

Purse.

Quilt.

Red Carpet:
Before they made the red carpet shine - Ishmael Reed "Skin Tight"

Rucksack:
Never unpack the rucksack of happiness again - Carl Adamshick "Loss"

Ruffle.

Rug:
Your own tragic edge of a rug - Mary Jo Bang "G Is Going"

Walk on the rug of the inquiring millennium - Pablo Neruda "Celebration" transl. by Richard Schaaf

Sack/Sackcloth.

Satchel:
The melancholy meaning of open satchels - Jane Kenyon "Going Away"

A satchel of notes drawn out of the tub - Ada Limon "The City of Skin"

a satchel of laments for a basket of hibiscus - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"

Sheet.

Shroud.

Suitcase.

Surplice:
Of sect, surplice, or synod - "Father Prout's Inaugurative Ode: To the Author of "Vanity Fair""

Tapestry.

Tassel.

Tent.

Thong:
Lie bound with thongs of fire - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"

Tote Bag:
A tote bag full of ceramic souvenirs - Helene Achanzar "The only poem I can write"

Umbrella.

Windsock:
A silk windsock of snow blowing - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"


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Potential Titles: Color [category]

Includes some very broad interpretation of the term 'color.'

Color/Colour.


Alabaster:
The portico hung o'er a flight of alabaster - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Walking through a forest filled with alabaster heads - Oliver de la Paz "Dear Empire [these are your temples]"

Darkens with alabaster and mahogany - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

Highways like ribbons of alabaster - Hsieh Hui-Lien "Prose Poem on the Snow" transl. by Burton Watson

Amber.

Amethyst.

Aquamarine:
Staring into aquamarine and amethyst - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"

Aquamarine Pisces gems for eyes - Denise Dumars "The Golem"

Angled slats of aquamarine - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"

Argent.

Azure.

Beige:
A beige wool loathing of prudence - Mary Jo Bang "G Is Going"

The barren beige of dirt reduced to dust - Mary Jo Bang "It Says, I Did So"

Black.

Black and White.

Blood-Red.

Blue.

Blush.

Brass.

Bronze.

Brown.

Burnt-Orange:
A bonfire of burnt-orange - Mary Jo Bang "Goodbye Is Another Word for Not"

Cerulean:
Michelangelo enameled in cerulean - Dan Chiasson "Bloom (II)"

Piercing the cerulean vault of heaven - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Miss Dix, the Philanthropist"

Flying from former fires into cerulean skies - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."

In the cerulean depths of slow oblivion - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"

Chartreuse:
The willow's chartreuse hosannas - Richard Solomon "After Reading the Love Songs of Vidyapati"

Chromatic.

Chrome.

Cinnabar:
Cinnabars where the flame burns purest - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

a reduction of mineral cinnabar - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

Spoons of jade mixing magic cinnabar - Pao Chao "In Imitation of 'The King of Huai-nan'" transl. by Burton Watson

Citrine:
Irradiated with citrine moonglow - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"

Clear.

Cobalt.

Colorless.

Copper.

Coral.

Cream.

Crimson.

Dapple.

Dark Blue:
Stars in their dark blue bow'rs - G.R. Carter "The Homeward Voyage" [The Mirror of Literature v.20 issue 562, 18 Aug. 1832]

Follow the dark blue blades of kale - Kiki Petrosini "De Jure Sanguinis" [excerpt]

Under thy dark-blue gates - "Sean Dana"

Day-Glo:
Cuts the Day-Glo sun to pieces - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

Dun:
When noonday hovers o'er my prison dun - Robert W. Cryan "Picciola" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.139-v.III, 28 Aug. 1886]

When beeches drip in browns and duns - Thomas Hardy "Weathers"

The thin dun soil of my soul - Lynn Riggs "Rhythm of Rain"

His will makes the world drear and dun - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: VII"

Ebon/Ebony.

Emerald.

Fluorescence.

Fuchsia.

Gloss:
From vivid crimson paled to fainter gloss - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]

Gold.

Gray/Grey.

Green.

Hot Pink:
A smear of hot pink on the asphalt - Anja Mei-Ping Kuipers "After a Rochester Wedding"

A marble made of hot pink plastic - Edgar Kunz "Missing It"

Incandescent.

Incarnadine:
Winking glimpses at incarnadined flame - C.S.E. Cooney "Werewoman"

Indigo.

Ink.

Invisible.

Iridescent.

Ivory.

Jade/Jaded.

Jet.

Lavender.

Luster/Lustre.

Magenta:
Toward the magenta shroud of its fate - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie

A frenzy of magenta flowers - Hoa Nguyen "'Language Points'"

Mahogany:
In unfettered mahogany abandon - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"

Darkens with alabaster and mahogany - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

Maroon.

Matte:
Matte black backlit with raw opal - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"

Some truer me in knots of matte and glowing rage - Brandon O'Brien "Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve's Beast"

Mauve.

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

Peeling clouds from the monochromatic sky - Adrian Matejka "Unfunky UFO"

Mottled.

Multicolor:
Legacies rolling out like multicolored marbles - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Nice Voice"

Navy Blue:
Navy blue around a fake significance - John Moncure Wettarau "On Looking at a Mediocre Painting"

Ocher/Ochre.

Off-White:
Mustard yellow, off-white, and mocha brown - Mouna Ammar "Azulelos of my Grandmother's Hallway"

Olive.

Onyx.

Orange (color and fruit).

Pastel:
Thought all bloodshed would be pastel - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"

And pastel somethings bloom - Jamaal May "I Have This Way of Being"

Fade from pastels to vibrancy - M. Regan "The Hollow"

Pewter:
Between the planets' pewter light - Chris Dombrowski "Boreal"

Pewter on a porcelain field - N. Scott Momaday "The Snow Mare"

The pale pewter path of the trees' parting - Joyce Sidman "Riding a Bike at Night"

The fire-lit pewter glowing - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"

Pigment.

Pink.

Plaid:
Plaid patterns push against bloodroot - John McCarthy "General Electric Monitor Top"

You'd better leave your plaid suitcase - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"

Purple.

Quicksilver.

Red.

Rose (mostly the flower).

Russet.

Rust.

Rutilant:
Little rutilant stones sunk in black basalt - Aldous Huxley "Behemoth"

Sable.

Saffron.

Sapphire.

Scarlet.

Sepia:
No sepia set of nostalgic names - Mary Jo Bang "A Boy at Play Is an Actor in a Tragedy"

Blue cut from the sepia cloth - Christopher Kondrich "[I Speak into the Color Blue Cut]"

The sepia of this desert city - Loretta Diane Walker "Imagining my Neighbor"

Sienna:
Living in the sienna's myriad mazes - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"

Silver.

Sky Blue:
black neon wrapped in sky blue linen - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Three Sulas"

Tan:
Out of the barrow he shovels the tan - "Saarchinkold!" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]

Beaches foam-laced with rainbowing suntan oil - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"

Tawny:
That spilled their colors in your tawny bronze - Lola Ridge "Moscow Bells, 1917"

Teal:
Warn each other in teal or celadon - Brenda Hillman "Species Prepare to Exist After Money"

Technicolor:
the house disguised as a technicolor sunset - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"

Technicolor and twilight-made - Taylor Johnson "W 177th & Broadway"

Lost in the technicolor thought of it - Wendy Xu "Interim Poetics"

Tinge.

Tint.

Tourmaline:
To lay tourmalines and tinted glass - Leah Bobet "Full Fathom Five"

In an hour colored tourmaline - Saeed Jones "Hour Between Dog & Wolf"

Tourmaline to smooth my tongue - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Translucent.

Transparent.

Turquoise.

Ultraviolet.

Umber.

Verdant.

Vermilion/Vermillion.

Violet (color and flower).

Viridian/Veridian:
Medicinal veridian of evergreen - Cynthia Hogue "in the meadow magenta"

an intermingling of viridian and chetwode horizons - Raina J. León "making life on a palette"

Stones under the moss of the viridescent storm - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"

Vivid.

White.

White-Hot.

Yellow.


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Potential Titles: Celebrations [category]

Anniversary
Other anniversaries of near misses - Julia Alvarez "Death Days"

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"

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]

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:
And tempt you to a spree - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"

Our world's long spree of Caesars - Erin Belieu "Pity the Doctor, Not the Disease"

Of a spook on a spree - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Vagabondia"

All very well for a spree - Lewis Carroll "A Sea Dirge"


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