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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHRISTIAN ETHICS: DELIGHTS AND PLEASURES, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poet's Biography
First Line: All music, sauces, feasts, delights and pleasures
Last Line: In temperance their sacred beauty find.
Subject(s): Temperance; Prohibition
First Line: All music, sauces, feasts, delights and pleasures
Last Line: In temperance their sacred beauty find.
Subject(s): Temperance; Prohibition
All music, sauces, feasts, delights and pleasures,
Games, dancing, arts, consist in governed measures;
Much more do words and passions of the mind
In temperance their sacred beauty find.
Other Poems of Interest...
IN PRAISE OF SOBRIETY by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS
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