I. COMRADES, fill the banquet cup Brimming up! Fill it full of love and laughter, Claret lips and kisses after, Crown it with a maiden's smiles, And the foam of magic wiles. Drink it, drain it, clink your glasses, For the love of loving lasses Ere it passes! II. Fill again the banquet cup Brimming up! Overflow it with the roses Which her timid blush discloses. With her sparkling eyelight sift it, Till it flavored is. Then lift it. Drink it, drain it, clink your glasses, For the love of loving lasses Ere it passes! III. Comrades, fill a parting cup Brimming up! Flood it in your praise's zest, For the uninvited guest. With her charms and graces fill it, Touch the lips and heartward spill it. Drink it, drain it, clink your glasses, For the love of loving lasses Ere it passes! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DAY AND THE WORK by EDWIN MARKHAM UPON DRINKING IN A BOWL by ANACREON WHEN WILL LOVE COME? by PAKENHAM THOMAS BEATTY THE FLY, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE HOLY CROSS DAY by ROBERT BROWNING ON LIVING, FROM LIFE IS A DREAM by PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA |