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Potential Titles: Bacchus/Bacchanal

With booming war drums of bacchanalia - Tiana Clark "Flambeaux"

In bacchanal exuberance burst and blow - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

And many a Bacchanal stave outpour'd - Henry S. Leigh "The Vision of the Alderman"

While Anarchy did sing her bacchanals - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"

In Cleopatra's stormy bacchanal - Francis Brett Young "To Lydia Lopokova: Her Variety"


Where wreathed Bacchantes float on every wall - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Who delight in the dance of a darling Bacchante - Oliver Herford "An Alphabet of Celebrities"


Wanton skip with bacchic dance - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Who still the Bacchic rites abhorr'd - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]


As swell'd the breasts of Bacchus' throng - Laurence Binyon "Youth"

In the footsteps of the great feet of Bacchus - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org

Did Bacchus yield to Reason's voice divine - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

If to Bacchus and to Ceres given - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

Charioted by Bacchus - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"

Who delight in the worship of Bacchus - Henry S. Leigh "Anacreontic (For a Cavalier Tea-Party)"

And Bacchus was put to bed snoring - Henry S. Leigh "The Olympic Ball"

To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore - John Milton "L'Allegro"

Bacchus or Ceres, burgundy or ale - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

To taste of Bacchus' blessings - Thomas Randolph "To Master Anthony Stafford"


Dionysus.


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