Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUMMER'S REVEL, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! But my mind is weary! Last Line: "come, friend -- you've drunk your last now.'" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Flowers; Life; Summer; Youth; Wine | ||||||||
Oh! but my mind is weary! Long have I conned the dreary Tomes of Aratus. Surely 'tis time to play now! Ho! to the fields away now! Shall we not live to-day now? What though dull fools berate us! What is the use of learning, When it but brings new yearning Problems to tease us? When, or at eve or morning, Soon, but without a warning, Pleadings and pity scorning, Orcus the dark shall seize us. Corydon, lead the way,and Find where good wine's to pay, and Cool me a flagon! Then in vine-trellised bowers, Bedded on thick-strewn flowers, Hours upon idle hours Sweetly shall haste or lag on. Artichokes bring me, mellow Apricots, melons yellow, Cream, and strawberries. These have the sweetest savor Eaten in forest cave, or Lying by brooks that rave or Streamlet that singing tarries. Now in my youth's fresh buoyance Laughter shall wait on joyance, Wine shall flow fast now; Lest, when my life grows colder, Sickness, by age made bolder, Say, as he taps my shoulder: "Come, friend -- you've drunk your last now.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A CUP OF TREMBLINGS by JOHN HOLLANDER VINTAGE ABSENCE by JOHN HOLLANDER SENT WITH A BOTTLE OF BURGUNDY FOR A BIRTHDAY by JOHN HOLLANDER 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 RETURN OF SPRING by PIERRE DE RONSARD |
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