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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHAT IS THIS VINTAGE, by HENRY A. WRIGHT First Line: What is this vintage brewed for us to drink Last Line: To fill the empty arteries of might? | |||
What is this vintage brewed for us to drink -- What are the rules? And shall we gorge the cup If it be sweet? If bitter scorn to shrink But sip it slowly till we drink it up? If I am but a peasant -- you a king -- Shall I be forced to give because you take; Or shall I leap to share this sparkling thing The winepress granted, every thirst to slake? If you are king, why must your wine be red? Must only vassals drink if it be white? Or is mine pale because my grapes are bled To fill the empty arteries of might? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPAIN IN AMERICA by GEORGE SANTAYANA LAST LINES OF THOMAS INGOLDSBY by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM ODE SUNG IN THE TOWN HALL, CONCORD, JULY 4, 1857 by RALPH WALDO EMERSON THE FIRST PROCLAMATION OF MILES STANDISH [NOVEMBER 23, 1620] by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON SONNET: 61 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PAUPER PETE'S SONG by MATHILDE BLIND THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: CHRIST'S SYMPATHY by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |
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