Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHAMPAGNE ROSE, by JOHN KENYON First Line: Lily on liquid roses floating Last Line: That dips itself in wine! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine | ||||||||
LILY on liquid roses floating -- So floats yon foam o'er pink champagne: Fain would I join such pleasant boating, And prove that ruby main, And float away on wine! Those seas are dangerous, graybeards swear, Whose sea-beach is the goblet's brim; And true it is they drown old care -- But what care we for him, So we but float on wine! And true it is they cross in pain, Who sober cross the Stygian ferry; But only make our Styx champagne, And we shall cross right merry, Floating away in wine! Old Charon's self shall make him mellow, Then gaily row his boat from shore; While we, and every jovial fellow, Hear, unconcern'd, the oar That dips itself in wine! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A CUP OF TREMBLINGS by JOHN HOLLANDER VINTAGE ABSENCE by JOHN HOLLANDER SENT WITH A BOTTLE OF BURGUNDY FOR A BIRTHDAY by JOHN HOLLANDER TO A CIVIL SERVANT by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG WINE by FRIEDRICH MARTIN VON BODENSTEDT THE GOOD FELLOW by ALEXANDER BROME WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN by DAVID LEHMAN MONUMENT AT LUCERNE by JOHN KENYON |
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