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Subject: TOASTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BACCHIC LYRIC, by HERBERT LIONEL DOGGETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Take from dead rome
Last Line: Love and wine and roses.
Subject(s): Pleasure; Toasts


A MILK TOAST, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, fill your glasses brimming up
Last Line: Long live the mooley cow!
Subject(s): Children; Toasts; Childhood


A NAVAL TOAST, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: To our noble commander
Last Line: May he drown and be damned / that refuses the health!
Subject(s): Toasts


A TOAST, by S. M. HARRINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, fill your cups but once again!
Last Line: We meet no more till who knows when?
Subject(s): Toasts; Yale University


A TOAST, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come! A health! And it's not to be slighted with sips
Last Line: "who first taught me to love, woo, and wed!"
Subject(s): Toasts


A TOAST, by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's a health to thee, roberts
Last Line: And here's to all the lasses!
Subject(s): Happiness; Toasts; Joy; Delight


A TOAST, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Toast a tyrant band,-skoel in sacred chorus!
Last Line: Fairyland's true elves,—to our kids, god bless 'em!
Subject(s): Children; Toasts; Childhood


A TOAST, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See this bowl of purple wine
Last Line: For a night and for a day.
Subject(s): Toasts


BALLAD TO THE TUNE OF 'THE HEALTHS', by PATRICK CAREY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, faith, since I'm parting, and that god knows when
Last Line: Each health still going round.
Subject(s): Farewell; Toasts; Parting


CHEERS, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine drinking to the health
Subject(s): Health; Toasts


CHEERS -- BOTTOMS UP, by STEPHANE MALLARME    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mere froth, these virgin verses
Last Line: From sounding at this sumptuous feast
Subject(s): Toasts


DECATUR'S TOAST, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up rose, triumphant, from his seat
Last Line: "our country! -- right or wrong!"
Subject(s): Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); Heroism; Nations; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Toasts; Heroes; Heroines


IT WAS OVERLAND THE RED, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you're askin' my opinion, well, said overland the red
Last Line: "... In concludin' ... We'll stand up and drink again."
Subject(s): California; Toasts


MR. FLOOD'S PARTY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old eben flood, climbing alone one night
Last Line: That many friends had opened long ago.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Alienation (social Psychology); Drinks & Drinking; Old Age; Solitude; Toasts; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Estrangement; Outcasts; Wine; Loneliness


PROSIT NEUJAHR, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be the new year sweet and short
Last Line: Prosit neujahr!
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Toasts


RAISING A GLASS FOR GRANDSONS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Break out champagne uncle carl smuggled back
Last Line: And day when these boys wake and cry
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Grandchildren; Toasts


RHYME TO LISBON, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A health to kate!
Last Line: Who made her bone his bone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Catherine Of Bragnza, Queen Of England; Rhyme; Toasts


SAINT PATRICK WAS A GENTLEMAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Forget the good saint patrick / and see the snakes again
Subject(s): "drinks & Drinking;patrick, Saint (5th Century);toasts;


SHORT FAREWELLS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A toast is the right length, I think
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Toasts; Farewell; Grief; Aging; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness


THE LAST TOAST, by MARY COLES CARRINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I would taste oblivion's wine
Last Line: Let me drain oblivion's wine!
Subject(s): Toasts


THE LATEST TOAST, by RAYMOND W. WALKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now rank and beauty's all agog
Last Line: Sir gay's obscure relation.
Subject(s): Debutantes; Toasts; Yale University


THE SILENT TOAST, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They stand with reverent faces
Last Line: Are lit with a light divine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G.
Subject(s): Toasts; World War I - Casualties


THE TOAST, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fill me with the rosy wine
Last Line: Thou hast given a peerless toast.
Subject(s): Toasts


THE TOAST: A SEA SONG, by CHARLES CAPRON MARSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come drink to the toast that I give ye
Last Line: Drink health to our sweethearts and wives.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Sailing & Sailors; Toasts; Water; Wine


TOAST, by FLEDA BROWN JACKSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sisters huddle together in the youngest one's
Last Line: And is busy at the moment forgetting even their names
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Fleda
Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Emptiness; Sisters; Toasts


TOAST FROM CANA, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let there be light, his father once had said
Last Line: Like the best vintage - deeper, richer, stronger
Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S.
Subject(s): Marriage; Religion; Toasts


TOAST TO A FUTURE DAY, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have climbed to the highest point of the mountain
Last Line: Ringed with the seven-colored rainbow
Subject(s): Future; Mountains; Toasts; Water


TOASTING WITH TAP WATER, by MATTHEW BAKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: To slow and irrevrsible developments!
Last Line: Postponed until I can provide sufficient evidence that I really really really %mean what I'm thinkin
Subject(s): Toasts


WITH A TOAST TO THE BRIDE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They met, they looked, they sighed, they loved
Last Line: To substitute for love.
Subject(s): Marriage; Toasts; Weddings; Husbands; Wives