Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LYRICS OF DRINK: 2, by JANET HAMILTON Poet's Biography First Line: Pour ye a wail of the wildest Last Line: Sublimed in eternity's fires! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Wine; Prohibition | ||||||||
Pour ye a wail of the wildest E'er wrung from a worn heart and mind! Tears and entreaties the mildest Are blown like the chaff on the wind! Speak through a trumpet of thunder, The drunkard is deaf to the call; Words of deep sorrow and wonder Unheeded, uncared for, may fall! Woe for the heart-stricken mother, Sinking in terror and shame From scenes that she vainly would smother The curse of her house and her name! Woe to the grey, stooping father The blossoms of love and of trust He hoped of his children to gather, Are withered and gone up like dust! Woe for the drunkardall feelings Of manhood and duty are gone! List to his horrid revealings, When reason lies drowned on her throne! Horrors, deep, direful, are rushing Through the dark 'wildered cells of his brain; Despair fiercely rending and crushing Each nerve and each hot-throbbing vein! Woe to the fiend-haunted dwelling Where the demon of drink hath abode! No psalm, even or morning, is swelling, But curses of man and of God! His heaven and his hell are in drinking; 'Tis bliss when his raging desires He is glutting; his hell is in thinking, Sublimed in Eternity's fires! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ODE FOR A SOCIAL MEETING, WITH SLIGHT ALTERATIONS BY A TEETOTALER by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 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 BALLAD FOUNDED ON A REAL INCIDENT WHICH OCCURED IN HIGH LIFE by JANET HAMILTON |
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