Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, RED WINE, by CARROLL RYAN


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First Line: Pour the red wine about!
Last Line: Unto death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Wine; Male-female Relations


Pour the red wine about!
Pour it out! Pour it out!
Drink, sing, laugh, and shout
With a will.

There's a storm in my soul,
That will ever uproll,
So quickly the bowl
Let us fill!

The day had not fled
With its living and dead,
Like a moment of dread
It was o'er;

As the sleeper will start
When he feels the knife dart
Dividing his heart
To the core

One terrible pain
Of heart and of brain,
A gasping in vain,
And no more!

Close, close to my breast
Her bosom was pressed—
Oh! how I was blest
In her arms!

Her breath was divine,
I drank it like wine,
Warm kisses were mine,
Mine her charms!

I looked in her eyes,
They were luminous skies,
Where her soul made replies
To mine own.

In a tempest of love,
That angels above
Might envy to prove,
We were one!

Then a power unseen
Came quickly between,
Like the icy cold sheen
Of the north;

And up I arose
To grapple my foes,
My efforts were throes
Little worth.

On the wrack of the storm
I saw her white form
Out oceanward torn,
Like a breath;

Dim ghosts all in white
Fast followed her flight,
Through terror and night,
Unto death.





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