Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DITHYRAMBIC, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poet's Biography First Line: Fill the cup for me Last Line: To its wildest measure. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking | ||||||||
FILL the cup for me Fill the cup of pleasure; Wake the fairy lyre To its wildest measure. Melancholy's gloom Now is stealing on me. But the cup and lyre Can chase the demon from me. Fill the cup for me, Fill the cup of pleasure; Wake the fairy lyre To its wildest measure. In the shades of night, When every eye is closing, On the moonlight bank All in peace reposing, There is nought so sweet, As the cup of pleasure, And the lyre that breathes In its wildest measure. Fill the cup, &c. This the smiling star, That guides me o'er life's ocean, This the heavenly light, That wakes my heart's devotion: 'T is when Beauty's smile Gives the cup of pleasure, And awakes the lyre To its wildest measure. Fill the cup, &c. If the fiend of sorrow With his gloom affright thee, There may come to-morrow One who will delight thee: 'T is the fair, whose smile Beams with sweetest pleasure, And whose hand awakes The lyre's delightful measure. Fill the cup, &c. Form of Beauty! bind Pleasure's wreath of roses Round this brow of mine, Where every joy reposes: Yes -- my heart can bound To mirth's enlivening measure, When the lyre is tuned, And smiles the cup of Pleasure. Fill the cup, &c. Drive dull Care away -- Why should gloom depress thee? Life may frown to-day, But Joy will soon caress thee. While there's time, my friend, Drink the cup of Pleasure, And awake the lyre To its wildest measure. Fill the cup for me, Fill the cup of Pleasure, Wake the fairy lyre To its wildest measure. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO A CIVIL SERVANT by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG WINE by FRIEDRICH MARTIN VON BODENSTEDT THE GOOD FELLOW by ALEXANDER BROME WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN by DAVID LEHMAN JOEY AWAKE NOW by GLYN MAXWELL RAISING A HUMID FLAG by THYLIAS MOSS THE CORAL GROVE by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL |
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