Drink! Drink! Drink! Thou pale eyed moody thinker -- Bacchus hater! water drinker! Drink, drink, drink, drink the ruby wine! 'Twill give thee many years and jolly, And 'twill chase away pale melancholy From those cheeks of thine. Drink, drink, etc. See, the water sot replieth, Water in its brightness vieth, Vieth with the wine tree's soul And longer liveth, wiser thinketh, The sober sage that never drinketh Of the boasted bowl. Drink, drink, etc. Well give me, give me the wine god's berry, They are more wise than merry, Let them drink -- let them drink with thee. Water seasons not my dishes, 'Tis a tipple for the fishes Not a drink for me. Drink, drink, etc. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AGAMEMNON: WELCOME TO AGAMEMNON by AESCHYLUS THE FOUNTAIN by MUHAMMAD AL-MU'TAMID II THE CAUTIOUS HOUSEHOLDER by ANAXILAS WHEN I WAS YOUNG by IRMA TIBBETTS ANDREWS STANZAS, COMPOSED WHILE WALKING ON WARREN HILL, EARLY SUMMER'S MORNING by BERNARD BARTON TO TERRAUGHTY, ON HIS BIRTHDAY by ROBERT BURNS OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 19. ELEGIAC VERSE: THE SECOND EPIGRAM by THOMAS CAMPION |