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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ODE FOR A SOCIAL MEETING, WITH SLIGHT ALTERATIONS BY A TEETOTALER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come! Fill a fresh bumper, for why should we go Last Line: Oliver wendell holmes. Subject(s): Censorship; Drinks & Drinking; Temperance; Wine; Prohibition | |||
COME! fill a fresh bumper, -- for why should we go logwood While the nectar still reddens our cups as they flow? decoction Pour out the rich juices still bright with the sun, dye-stuff Till o'er the brimmed crystal the rubies shall run. half-ripened apples The purple-globed clusters their life-dews have bled; taste sugar of lead How sweet is the breath of the fragrance they shed! rank poisons wines!!! For Summer's last roses lie hid in the wines stable-boys smoking long-nines That were garnered by maidens who laughed through the vines, scowl howl scoff sneer Then a smile, and a glass, and a toast, and a cheer, strychnine and whiskey, and ratsbane and beer For all the good wine, and we've some of it here! In cellar, in pantry, in attic, in hall, Down, down with the tyrant that masters us all! Long live the gay servant that laughs for us all! Oliver Wendell Holmes. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TEMPER by CLARA EXLINE BOCKOVEN A TRUCKER DRIVES THROUGH HIS LOST YOUTH by DAVID BOTTOMS THE FIGHTING WORD by BERTON BRALEY THE METHOD OF THE MAD MULLAH by BERTON BRALEY ON A PROHIBITIONIST POEM by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON A MAIDEN'S DREAM by ROBERT GREENE OUR PROGRAM by ARTHUR GUITERMAN A CRACK AT THE LAW by ADRIAN HALE A BALLAD OF THE BOSTON TEA-PARTY [DECEMBER 16, 1773] by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES |
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