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| Searching... Subject: DRINKS & DRINKING Matches Found: 536 "ANTIDOTE AGAINST MELANCHOLY, SELS.", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "drink clear, boys" Last Line: "but wine, that makes a poet" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking "COME, LANDLORD", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He that drinketh strong beer Last Line: "come, land, fill the flowing bowl" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking "COME, LET US DRINK, THE TIME INVITES", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: For to pass away long nights / and to keep good wits together Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking "DRINK TO FAIR WOMEN, WHO, I THINK", by B. JABEZ" "JENKINS [PSEUD.] Poem Text Last Line: She certainly would do it Alternate Author Name(s): "jenkins, B. Jabez; Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking "FILL UP THE BOWL, UPON MY SOUL", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "till you have have drowned regret, sir" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking "I LIKES A DROP OF GOOD BEER, I DOES", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "come, neighbours all, both great and small" Last Line: For I likes a bottle of good beer Subject(s): Beer;drinks & Drinking; Ale "IF SORROW, THE TYRANT, INVADE THE BREAST", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "be merry and jolly, and drown all thy care / for ever and aye, in a mug, a mug!" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking "LET WINE, GAY COMRADES, BE THE FOOD WE'RE FED UPON", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Of our vineyards yield the bier that we lie dead upon Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking "O GOOD ALE, THOU ART MY DARLING", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The landlord he looks very big Last Line: "come up, my friend, - and down he goes! / for 'tis o good ale" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking "SAY, WHY DID TIME", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And sparkles far more brightly? Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking "SINFUL YOUTH, SINFUL YOUTH", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "I'm so dry, I'm so dry" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking "SOLDIER, SOLDIER, TAKE OFF THY WINE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "'then take off your drink, as I take mine.'" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking "THEN CALL, AND DRINK UP ALL", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: My father has made his will Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking "TODLEN BUTT, AND TODLEN BEN", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When I've a saxpence under my thumb Last Line: When round as a neep you come todlen hame Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking "TOSS THE POT, TOSS THE POT, LET US BE MERRY", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And drink till our cheeks be as red as a cherry Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking A BACCHANAL, by AURELIAN TOWNSEND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bacchus, I-acchus, fill our brains Last Line: Tis wine, pure wine, ... Alternate Author Name(s): Townshend, Aurelian Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine A BACCHANALIAN SONG, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing! - who sings Last Line: And the best of all good company. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Dreams; Drinks & Drinking; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Wine A BACCHANALIAN TOAST, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drink up Last Line: Tis an ill sign. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine A BACCHIC ODE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wine - bring wine! Last Line: Poured by the hebe, poesy. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Bacchus; Drinks & Drinking; Life; Mythology - Classical; Rhine (river), Europe; Wine A BALLAD ON ALE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst some in epic strains delight Last Line: With copious draughts of ale. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Ale; Wine A BOTTLE OF THE OLD, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This tawny old port has quite lost all its smack Last Line: "pray, what bin is it from?"" ""from the has been,"" said jack." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Bottles; Drinks & Drinking; Wine A CATCH (5), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "drink, boys; drink, boys, and do not spare" Last Line: "what care we, boys, how the world goes?" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking A CATCH ROYAL, by THOMAS JORDAN Poem Text First Line: Let the drawer run down Last Line: We'll drink the sun up again. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine A COGIE O' YILL, by ANDREW SHIRREFS Poem Text First Line: Acogie o' yill and a pickle ait-meal Last Line: Then hey for the whiskey, etc. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine A COUNTERPOINT, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Let me be my own fool Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine A CRACK AT THE LAW, by ADRIAN HALE Poem Text First Line: When winter comes with gust and flaw Last Line: "medicinal purposes only." Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Temperance; Wine; Prohibition A CURIOUS REMINISCENCE, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERY (19TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: Of all the bloomin' awful things, the awfullest I've knowed Last Line: An' gallops off like madmen through the rain. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Memory; Practical Jokes; Dead, The; Wine; Pranks A DOGGEREL, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quel dommage, no more Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine A DRINKING SONG, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: A bee goes mumbling homeward pleased Last Line: My soul be thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine A DRINKING SONG, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drink, and fill the night with mirth! Last Line: Drink, and drown the world in pleasure. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine A DROUGHT IDYLL, by GEORGE ESSEX EVANS Poem Text First Line: It was the middle of the drought; the ground was hot and bare Last Line: "my word!"" he said, ""it's up to me to feed on this meself!" Subject(s): Cattle; Drinks & Drinking; Drought; Story-telling; Wine A GLASS O' ALE, by DANIEL CARMICHAEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou pure, sparklin' glass o' ale Last Line: A glass o' ale. Subject(s): Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Ale; Wine A GLASS OF BEER, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The lanky hank of a she in the inn over there Last Line: The high king of glory permit her to get the mange. Variant Title(s): Righteous Anger Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Curses; Drinks & Drinking; Hate; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Ale; Wine A GLASS OF WINE, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exactly as the setting sun Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine A LARGE EVENING AT THE CLUB (AS IT WAS ONCE), by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They're clustering wabbily round the bar Last Line: There's a lot of gentlemen soused to-night! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine A MAN BY THE NAME OF BOLUS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man by the name of bolus -- (all 'at we'll ever know Last Line: Git up and smile white at 'em, with your hands crossed thataway! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; Drinks & Drinking; Strangers; Nativity, The; Wine A MIDNIGHT MEDITATION, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fill me once more the foaming pewter up! Last Line: What ho! Within there, ho! Another pint of stout! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine A MONSIEUR NASO, VEROLE, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Naso lets none drink in his glass but he Last Line: Think you 'tis curious pride? 'tis courtesy. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Etiquette; Wine; Manners; Courtesy A NEW TEMPERANCE POEM, IN MEMORY OF MY DEPARTED PARENTS, WHO WERE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My parents were sober living, and often did pray Last Line: And the people would have more peace in it to dwell Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Human Behavior; Social Problems; Violence; Wine; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A PANEGYRIC UPON EXCELLENT STRONG BEER ... DRANK IN WICH, WORCESTER, by THOMAS NABBES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou ever youthful god of wine Last Line: It makes, and yet mars many a score. Subject(s): Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Ale; Wine A PLATONIC BACCHANAL SONG, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fill high the bowl of life for me Last Line: In that, the purest, sweetest cup. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine A POTION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How brew the brave drink life? Last Line: Then down with the brave drink life! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Life; Moon; Pain; Sin; Wine; Suffering; Misery A ROUND, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the spring hath fill'd our veins Last Line: And plump as the lusty grape. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine A RULE OF THREE, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a rule to drink Last Line: And after you have eaten. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine A SONG, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vain you tell your parting lover Last Line: Of slighted vows, and cold disdain. Subject(s): Bacchus; Drinks & Drinking; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Soul; Venus (goddess); Wine A SONG OF SACK, SELECTION, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The whining lover that doth place Last Line: Who drinks the deepest? Here's to him! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine A SONG OF THE SECTS (IN A JERUSALEM TAVERN), by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A latin and greek, praise god, are we, armenian and copt Last Line: But we all believe, we all believe, in the holy sepulchre! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Faith; God; Sects; Singing & Singers; Wine; Belief; Creed A TOAST, by A. K. LANE Poem Text First Line: What though the storm-king growls in a rage Last Line: "sans hope, sans joy!"" he singeth." Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine A VISIT, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Women; Wine ADOLPHUS BUSCH: AVE ATQUE VALE, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They brought his body to the shore Last Line: Rose, spite that needle's eye, to god. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Busch, Adolphus (1839-1913); Business; Drinks & Drinking; Ale; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Wine AFTER GETTING DRUNK, BECOMING SOBER IN THE NIGHT, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our party scattered at yellow dusk and I came home to bed Last Line: And in my ears something sounded like the music of flutes and strings. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Drinks & Drinking; Wine AFTER TENIERS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A quiet curve of sombre brown water Last Line: In the deep'ning gloom of the evening time. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Evening; Peasantry; Wine; Sunset; Twilight ALE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Now do I hear thee weep and groan Last Line: His grave, ha! Ha! Holds up my head. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Ale; Wine ALE, by JOHN STILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot eat but little meat Last Line: Whether it be new or old! Variant Title(s): Good Ale;jolly Good Ale And Old Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Ale; Wine ALE'S A STRONG WRESTLER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "and makes the ground slippery, / though it be not wet" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking ALGONQUIN AFTERTHOUGHTS, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Or else our drunken tumble was Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Love - Erotic; Lies; Wine AN EASY REMEMDY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An honest tailor, whose baptismal Last Line: "why don't you warm it?" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Cold; Drinks & Drinking; Marriage; Water; Wine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "while life was mine, the little hour" Last Line: And bacchus was out-done by me Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking AN INVITATION TO A DRINKFEST, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You tell when inachus was born Last Line: My glycera ... You know me, tel. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine AN ODE OF ANACREON, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My hairs are hoary, wrinkled is my face Last Line: To clear our minds of such dull thoughts, let's drink. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Aging; Drinks & Drinking; Wine AN OLD CATCH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Now god be wi' old symon Last Line: "come, troll the bowl to me" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;old Age ANACREON'S TOMB, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "pour a libation, stranger, as you pass" Last Line: It is an anacreon's tomb. He loved his glass Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.);drinks & Drinking;poetry & Poets ANACREONTIC, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fill a bowl of lusty wine Last Line: Down to sleep than down to die. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ANY OTHER TIME, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All of us play our very best game Last Line: Any other time! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Lies; Sea; Wine; Ocean AT A SEACOAST TAVERN, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: We sat at drinking with our merry host Last Line: "for honor's sake, for truth and liberty." Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Drinks & Drinking; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Wine AT MORNING ON THE GARDEN SEAT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: At half past six a pottle more Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Foof & Eating AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 1, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The laborer's fist becomes velvet Last Line: A modern sun-god for the peasant Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Music & Musicians; Wine AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 3, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daybreak. The chicha finally explodes Last Line: Tucks up her saffron-colored thighs Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Native Americans; Wine; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AUTUMN LANDSCAPE, by HO XUAN HUONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drop by drop rain slaps the banana leaves Last Line: Whoever sees this landscape is stunned. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Human Behavior; Nature; Rivers; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Vietnam; Wine; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature BACCHUS, by JACK MERTEN Poem Text First Line: The blood of full grapes swells my wooden goblet Last Line: Before the barred door of eternity. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Future Life; Grapes; Wine; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BACK FROM KINLOCHLEVEN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waterworks are finished and the boys have / jacked the shovel Last Line: But at any rate you'll know them by their curses when in town. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Death; Desolation; Drinks & Drinking; Labor & Laborers; Quarrels; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Dead, The; Wine; Work; Workers; Arguments; Disagreements BALLAD, by MATTHEW CONCANEN Poem Text First Line: How void of ease Last Line: "that's melted in october." Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'THAT WE MAY ROW WITH MY P. OVER YE FERRY', by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good people of england! Come hear me relate Last Line: Till claret be restor'd, let us drink sherry. Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Drinks & Drinking; England; Noses; Wine; English BALLADE OF A SHIP, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down by the flash of the restless water Subject(s): Shipwrecks; Death; Drinks & Drinking; Dead, The; Wine BALLADE OF THE ABSENT GUEST, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friends whom to-night once more I greet Last Line: I drink -- in tears -- the absent guest. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Dead, The; Wine BALLADE TO A DEPARTING GOD, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God of the wine list, roseate lord Last Line: Tis not good-by -- but au revoir! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine BANISH SORROW, by GEORGE OGLE Poem Text First Line: Banish sorrow, grief's a folly Last Line: There's no drinking in the grave. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness BARRELS, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Separation; Wine BE DRUNK, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: "with wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you please." Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine BEER, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In those old days which poets say were golden Last Line: Fate cannot touch me: I have dined to-day.' Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Ale; Wine BEER, by FLAVIUS CLAUDIUS JULIANUS Poem Text First Line: Can this be dionysus? How the deuce! Last Line: In fact, a cereal. Alternate Author Name(s): Julian The Apostate Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine BEER, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet's Biography First Line: After the store and the gas station close Last Line: The movements, and how everything goes together / for hours Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bars & Bartenders; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Ale; Wine BLIND MAN'S BUFF, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three wags (whom some fastidious carpers Last Line: "out of your wages!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Blindness; Drinks & Drinking; Eyes; Visually Handicapped; Wine BLUEBEARD'S LAST WIFE: COMES LOVINGCUP, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gay lovingcup! As joyful as the morn Last Line: Drowned in a tank of half of one per cent. Subject(s): Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Ale; Wine BOTTLE-O!, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ain't the kind of bloke as takes to any steady job Last Line: There's nothing like an empty bottle-o! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Bottles; Drinks & Drinking; Singing & Singers; Wine BOTTOMS UP!, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wine of life! -- most men prefer Last Line: "the wine of life—with brandy in it!" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine BRAHMA'S CUP, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lift the cup of brahma high! Last Line: And he receives me into him. Subject(s): Brahma; Cups; Drinks & Drinking; Liquorice; Wine BRANDY POND, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come all you jolly river boys and join me while I sing Last Line: And johnny williams of great pond was given of the blame! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Rivers; Singing & Singers; Wine; Songs BRAWN OF ENGLAND'S LAY, by JOHN HUNTER-DUVAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The villeins clustered round the bowl Last Line: "and thrall." Alternate Author Name(s): Duvar, John Hunter Subject(s): Christmas; Drinks & Drinking; Nativity, The; Wine BREAD AND WINE, by ELIZABETH MORROW Poem Text First Line: All day work in the shops Last Line: And this is wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Cutter, Elizabeth Reeve Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Labor & Laborers; Wine; Work; Workers BRING US IN GOOD ALE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "bring us in good ale, and bring us in good ale" Last Line: Nor bring us in no dokes flesh for they slobber in the mer: / but bring us in good ale Subject(s): Alcohol & Alcoholics;beer;drinks & Drinking; Ale BURGUNDY, by GLADYS ADELINA LEWIS Poem Text First Line: Siege! Last Line: On streaming blood-red burgundy. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewys, Georges Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Grapes; Vines & Vineyards; Wine CALLER WATER, by DANIEL CARMICHAEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let ithers sing o' sparkling wine Last Line: That flow frae caller water. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Wine CAPRIAN WINE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bring me a cup of the vintage of capri Last Line: I bless thee for giving this caprian wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Capri, Italy; Drinks & Drinking; Wine CAPTAIN STRATTON'S FANCY, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, some are fond of red wine, and some are fond of white Last Line: Like an old bold mate of henry morgan. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Pirates; Wine; Piracy; Buccaneers CARE DROWNED, by WILLIAM GRANT Poem Text First Line: Care! Thou canker of our joys Last Line: William grant. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine CHAMPAGNE ROSE, by JOHN KENYON Poem Text First Line: Lily on liquid roses floating Last Line: That dips itself in wine! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine CHANSON A BOIRE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let's mind our drinking Last Line: Each face of the gang will a sun be to-morrow. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine CIGARS AND BEER, by GEORGE ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here / with my beer Last Line: Without the cross! Variant Title(s): Beer Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Smoking; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Ale; Wine; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes CLEPSYDRA, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, let it run! Who bids it stay? Last Line: Against a cannon-bullet. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Water Clocks; Wine COCKTAIL HOUR, by MARGARET E. MCINTYRE Poem Text First Line: Between the dusk and the twilight Last Line: It must be upheld, to get by. Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Drinks & Drinking; Dusk; Smoking; Wine; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes COME, HONEST BOYS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Ye who have nothing to conceal Last Line: In summer, under some green tree? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Dead, The; Wine COMMANDERS OF THE FAITHFUL, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pope he is a happy man Last Line: And would be neither turk nor pope. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Popes; Wine; Papacy COMPENSATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After all / there are moments Last Line: The sea! The sea! The sea! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Memory; Sea; Wine; Ocean COMPLETION, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The brooklet fell from the crannied rock Last Line: A drop of water good to drink. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Rain; Sea; Spring; Water; Wine; Ocean COMRADE SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We hold not in our power Last Line: In vine-clad bowers drinking! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Love; Muses; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Wine COMRADES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I and my soul are alone to-day Last Line: I find this soul of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; God; Love; Soul; Wine CONCERNING I AND NON-I, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now brim your glass and plant it well Last Line: Of me and the wine in my veins! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine CONDITIONED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dear old pipe, my oldest friend" Last Line: For I loved but you Subject(s): Beer;drinks & Drinking; Ale DANGERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If from man's vile arts I flee Last Line: Of every sort and kind and station / dame nature just beats all creation Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking DAWN WHISKEY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mind follow the nose Last Line: As this whiskey to my tongue. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Memory; Wine DEAD EASY, by J. BARR Poem Text First Line: When bill shakes hands with all the mob Last Line: "I'm stopping at the pub!" Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Drinks & Drinking; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Wine DEAR TOM THIS BROWN JUG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dear tom, this brown jug which now foams with good ale" Last Line: So here's to my lovely sweet kate of the vale Subject(s): Bottles;death;drinks & Drinking;friendship; "dead, The; DISCUSSION AFTER THE FIFTH OR SIXTH, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, about the other one, the sober one Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine DITHYRAMBIC, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fill the cup for me Last Line: To its wildest measure. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking DOLORES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lithe-armed, and with satin Last Line: You wear like a gyve round your neck. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Drinks & Drinking; Love; Wine DOMESDAY BOOK: AT NICE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, let me tell you, safe beside you now Last Line: To coroner merival in a leisure hour: Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; France; Guns; Love; Soldiers; Wine DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here's a health to the queen and a lasting peace Last Line: "and they that won't with us comply, / down among the dead men let them lie" Subject(s): Bacchus;blessings;courts & Courtiers;drinks & Drinking;mythology - Classical DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 3. TEESTAY, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of tropic sensations, the worst Last Line: Teestay, teestay. Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Drinks & Drinking; Pleasure; Wine DRINK, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drink, my jolly lads, drink with discerning Last Line: Drink and be merry, lads, half seas over. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine DRINK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Say that the house that makes our laws Last Line: No disrespect to drink! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine DRINK, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My whiskey is / a tough way of life Last Line: Of skyscrapers. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking DRINK OF THIS CUP, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rink of this cup - you'll find there's a spell in / its every drop Last Line: Her cup was a fiction, but this is reality. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine DRINK TO ME ONLY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Drink to me only with thine eyes Last Line: I would not change for thine Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;eyes;kisses;soul DRINKING FRENCH WINE IN MIDDLE AMERICA, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Bought a bottle of vouvray Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine DRINKING IN THE DAYTIME, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Anything is better than this Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Love - Erotic; War; Conduct Of Life; Wine DRINKING ODE, by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE Poem Text First Line: Drink on, tho' night be spent and sun do shine Last Line: Who's sure to live, and drink another day? Alternate Author Name(s): Alkaios Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine DRINKING SONG, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Ah, life, we are no sooner dressed Last Line: Us like good wine and love. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine DRINKING SONG, by BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let sparkling wine o'erbrim the glass Last Line: And wine of kisses thrice too few. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Wine DRINKING SONG, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want to die in the saddle. An enemy of civilization Last Line: Chest, clouds above, she was in ny forever and I, fishing and drinking. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Loss; Singing & Singers; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs DRINKING SONG, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We care not for money, riches or wealth Last Line: Old sack is our money, old sack is our health. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine DRINKING SONG (1), by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE Poem Text First Line: Zeus rains; a storm comes in its might Last Line: Wine --, and get drunk on it. Alternate Author Name(s): Alkaios Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine DRINKING SONG (2), by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE Poem Text First Line: Now bind the woven necklaces Last Line: Into your bosom float. Alternate Author Name(s): Alkaios Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine DRINKING SONG (3), by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE Poem Text First Line: Drink! Why wait for lamps? The day / has not another inch to fall Last Line: Set another cup a-going! Alternate Author Name(s): Alkaios Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine DRINKING SONG (4), by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE Poem Text First Line: Soak your lungs with wine, for now Last Line: Withers heads and knees. Alternate Author Name(s): Alkaios Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine DRINKING SONG OF MUNICH, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet iser! Were thy sunny realm Last Line: A paradise below! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine DRINKING SONG, BY A MEMBER OF A TEMPERANCE SOCIETY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, pass round the pail, boys, and give it no quarter Last Line: Then hey for a bucket, &c. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Temperance; Wine; Prohibition DRINKING SONG, FR. THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, by RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen Last Line: I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for a glass. Variant Title(s): Let The Toast Pass;drinking Song By Sir Harry Bumper;song And Chorus Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Women; Wine DRINKING SONG; INSCRIPTION FOR AN ANTIQUE PITCHER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, old friend! Sit down and listen! Last Line: In the head of old silenus! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine DRINKING VERSUS THINKING; OR, A SONG AGAINST THE NEW PHILOSOPHY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My merry men all, that drink with glee Last Line: Dead drunk beneath the table! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine DRINKING WINE, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He looked, and gave me beauty Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine DRINKING-SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: You may say that lachrymae christi Last Line: "and, waiter, my glass replenish / with plain milwaukee beer" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking DRINKING; PARAPHRASED, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth with swallowing drunken showers Last Line: Drink and be drunk as well as they? Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine DRINKS IN THE TOWN SQUARE, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No sooner had they carried their martinis Last Line: Fists in their pockets, daggers in their eyes Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; City & Town Life; Wine DUMFRIES, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gods sure in some canny hour / to bonny nith hae taen a tour Last Line: With frequent brimmer. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Churchill, Charles (1731-1764); Drinks & Drinking; Towns; Wine DURHAM MILITIA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "you are going to be a militia man, a valiant volunteer" Last Line: The durham volunteers should find themselves in meat and clothes Subject(s): Beer;drinks & Drinking;kisses;soldiers;war; Ale EAST SIXTY-SEVENTH STREET, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Any man -- god, if he had the money Last Line: Because we are what we are and that hurts Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Poetry & Poets; Gays &y Lesbians; O'hara, Frank (1926-1966) EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "says my lord to his cook, 'you son of a punk'" Last Line: "so for fear I should miss it, I'm drunk every day" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No plate had john and joan to hoard Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Time; Wine EPIGRAM: 85. OF THE ABBOT AND HIS VALET, by CLEMENT MAROT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His grace the abbot and his servynge ladde Last Line: Whyle in the bowle a single drop was left. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Household Employees; Wine; Servants; Domestics; Maids EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Beneath these stones repose the bones Last Line: And then the bier took him Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;epitaphs EPITAPH, by FRANCOIS MAYNARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time, which does all creatures kill Last Line: Twas because he knew him not. Subject(s): Accidents; Drinks & Drinking; Wine EPITAPH ON BREWER GABRIAL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here brewer gabriel's fire's extinct Last Line: In upright, honest morals. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Epitaphs; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Ale; Wine EQUAL JUSTICE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the mantuan law, the old chronicle faith Last Line: Our host had been hung when he sold his bordeaux. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Hospitality; Jokes; Justice; Wine EXTRACTS FROM LUCIENNE: 51, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: From a little violet wine at not too dear a fee, my love, I have de Last Line: Melancholy. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Love; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness FAIRY WINE, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You from east and I from west Last Line: We sipped together at the feast! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Fairies; Wine; Elves FILL THE GOBLET AGAIN! FOR I NEVER BEFORE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fill the goblet again! For I never before Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking FOR TED, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is 0200 hrs july 8, 1983 Last Line: To make me laugh so hard I almost shit my pants Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Death; Drinks & Drinking; Funerals; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Dead, The; Wine; Burials FRA MOREALE: BATTLE-SONG, by S. B. R. Poem Text First Line: With a hearty laugh Last Line: When in death you are coldly lying! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Military; Oaths; Wine FROM THE GREEK, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great bacchus, born in thunder and in fire Last Line: The moral says; mix water with your wine. Subject(s): Bacchus; Drinks & Drinking; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs; Wine FULL SWEET OF A TRUTH IS THE SPARKLE OF WINE, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Wine; Water; Drinks & Drinking GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 10, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On leaving hagen the night came on Last Line: So amen to my invocation! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Marriage; Westphalia, Germany; Wine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GHAZALS: 12, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Says borges in ficciones, 'I'm in hell. I'm dead,' and the dark Last Line: Slapping the warm water on which the sun ripples and churns. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Imaginary Conversations; Dead, The; Wine GHAZALS: 23, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I imagined her dead, killed by some local maniac who Last Line: Sack in my teeth. At the dump I pause to snarl at a rat. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Drinks & Drinking; Relationships; Wine GOD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is that face at the window? Last Line: I refuse to believe in god! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Faces; Fire; God; Jesus Christ; Lies; Love; Wine HAD I THE TUN WHICH BACCHUS USED, by RICHARD ALFRED MILLIKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Make whiskey more divine Alternate Author Name(s): Milliken, Richard Alfred Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking HAFIZ, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wine, wine, sweet wine Last Line: "to zara's arms." Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Death; Drinks & Drinking; Hafez (1326-1390); Dead, The; Wine; Hafiz (1326-139) HANG-OVER, by WILMA CRITTENDEN Poem Text First Line: Morning is a dingy room Last Line: And the lost, lost sea! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Morning; Sea; Sun; Wine; Ocean HARVEST-HOME SONG, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The frost will bite us soon Last Line: Drink deep; drink it up! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Harvest; Wine HAYING, VERMONT AND GINGER DRINK COORDINATED, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To know what dido drank, a scholar Last Line: Vermont's great beverage, ginger drink. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Vermont; Water; Wine HERE'S A RIDDLE MOST ABSTRUSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Only when I grow tight? Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;riddles HERE'S TO A TEMPERANCE SUPPER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And me not there at all Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;temperance; Prohibition HERE'S TO THE GIRL I LOVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: I'd drink the damn place dry Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking HIGHWAYS, by LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS Poem Text First Line: Who's learned the lure of trodden ways Last Line: But cannot love a town. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Towns; Wine HIS STORY, by JOHN PHILIP BURKE Poem Text First Line: My name?' (he was wizened and wrinkled and grey Last Line: "can you lend me a bob for a rum?" Alternate Author Name(s): B., J. P. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Names; Story-telling; Wine HOME REMEDY, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The whiskey made me invisible Last Line: To stand in it was to blaze / effaced Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Past HORACE: ODE, by ANDREW CRAWFURD Poem Text First Line: What gars ye yoke in drucken tuilzies? Last Line: Nae pow'r frae folly can restore. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine HOT SUMMER AFTERNOON, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Six choc'late milkshakes ready to drink Last Line: They couldn't possibly unless they were hollow. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Summer; Wine HYDROMEL AND RUE, by GEORGE MARION MCCLELLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, let me live to serve and make a loan Last Line: Triumphantly, in thanks to thee, dear lord. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine I BRING AN UNACCUSTOMED WINE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: When I at last awake Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking I LIKES A DROP OF GOOD BEER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come one and all both great and small Last Line: "for we likes a drop, etc" Subject(s): Beer;drinks & Drinking; Ale I WAS JUST FROSTED, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks, ray, this is just what the doctor ordered. Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine IDYLL, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hermit hoar, in solemn cell Last Line: "come, my lad, and drink some beer." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Variant Title(s): The Doctor's Own;imitation Of The Style Of [percy] Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Warton, Thomas (1728-1790); Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Ale; Wine IF PHYLLIS DENIES ME RELIEF, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And be drunk with nothing but love Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;grief; Sorrow;sadness IN A COUNTRY CEMETERY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had been reading tombstones and drinking in Last Line: Before it was too late Subject(s): Cemeteries; Drinks & Drinking; Graveyards; Wine IN MAXIMUM, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woulds't thou be free? I think it not indeed Last Line: Then, maximus, then first shalt thou be free. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Marriage; Rome, Italy; Wine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN PRAISE OF ALE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When the chill charokoe blows Last Line: O give me ale! Subject(s): Beer;drinks & Drinking;poetry & Poets; Ale IN PRAISE OF WINE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "diogenes, surly and proud" Last Line: "philosophers, poets, or kings" Subject(s): Diogenes;drinks & Drinking IN RE A GENTLEMAN, ONE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We see it each day in the paper Last Line: Have mercy on 'gentleman, one'! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Fates (mythology); Law & Lawyers; Life; Wine INISHOWEN, by WILLIAM MAGINN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I care not a fig for a flagon of flip Last Line: Prefer I to inishowen. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine INSTRUCTIONS TO CELEBRATED LAUREAT: GEORGE III VISITS BREWERY, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Muse, sing the stir that happy whitbread made Last Line: Rattled his chain, and wagged his tail for wonder. Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Beer; Courts & Courtiers; Drinks & Drinking; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Guests; Ale; Wine; Visiting INVOCATION, by FRANCOIS RABELAIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bottle, whose mysterious deep Last Line: Ease my mind, and speak my fate. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine JACK LONDON AND O.HENRY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Both were jailbirds; no speechmakers at all Last Line: Who knew the hearts of these boozefighters? Subject(s): London, Jack (1876-1916); O. Henry (1862-1910); Drinks & Drinking JET, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I wish I were still out Last Line: We would give anything for what we have Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine JIM CAREW, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Born of a thoroughbred english race Last Line: I am, or -- no, I was -- jim carew.' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Faces; Grief; Dead, The; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness JOEY AWAKE NOW, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some poems, / right some poems Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine JOLLY GOOD ALE AND OLD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "back and side go bare, go bare" Last Line: Whether they be young or old Subject(s): Alcohol & Alcoholics;beer;drinks & Drinking; Ale JOLLY NOSE, by WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jolly nose! The bright rubies that garnish thy tip Last Line: Than live always in darkness without it! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine JONES ENLIGHTENED, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At bordeaux, when autumn had ripen'd the vine Last Line: "now the reason I know why they call it la fitte." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Grapes; Wine KEEP YOUR RYE OPEN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No man, dear doctor, can deny Last Line: Viz., pure-rye-ty. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine LAGER BEER, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lafs und sings, und shumps aroundt Last Line: Pffenberger deutzelheim Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Ale; Wine LAKE HAKONE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Many loves have I known and much intoxication Last Line: Wherewith to drink to drunkenness. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Fuji, Mount; Water; Wine LAST ON EARTH, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is said that many have been cured of madness by drinking Subject(s): Christianity; God; Drinks & Drinking; Insanity; Wine; Madness; Mental Illness LET MINIONS MARSHAL EVERY HAIR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "some men want wit, and others wealth, / but they want nothing that are drunk" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking LET THE GHOSTS IN BLACK EREBUS ROAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: For no pleasure like drinking is found Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking LET'S BE JOVIAL AND GAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And who knows but it may be to-morrow Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking LETTERS TO YESENIN: 5, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lustra. Officially the cold comes from manitoba Last Line: With endless thirst. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cold; Drinks & Drinking; Russia; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Wine; Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 6, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fruit and butter. She smelled like the skin of an apple Last Line: All must pass as a monk's tale, a future lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Sex; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Wine LIFE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friendly it stands, that inn upon the plain Last Line: What inn it was, or by whom tenanted. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Soul; Travel; Wine; Journeys; Trips LIFE, by ELIZABETH ROOSA CODDINGTON Poem Text First Line: I snatched the sparkling cup of life Last Line: And slowly sipped; and lo, the very dregs were sweet. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Life; Wine LIMERICK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A man to whom illness was chronic Last Line: "'no, no,' said the doc, 'that's teutonic'" Variant Title(s): Beer Subject(s): Beer;drinks & Drinking; Ale LINES ON ALE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fill with mingled cream and amber Last Line: I am drinking ale today. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine LINES TO A GARDEN HOSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sprinkle, sprinkle, little hose" Last Line: Irresponsibility! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;floods;gardens & Gardening;water LINES, IMPROMPTU, TO Q SCULL, ON ITS IMMEDIATELY ABSORBING SOME WINE, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: Who bade thee drink? Thy day is done Last Line: Come, here's the other glass! Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine LOST WINE, by PAUL VALERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day I cast into the sea Last Line: Figures of greatest profundity. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wings; Wine LOVE AFTER LOVE, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The time will come Subject(s): Food & Eating; Drinks & Drinking; Self-love; Wine LOVE AND WINE, by RUFINUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, by himself, I can defy Last Line: To two such gods I yield. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Love; Wine LOVE, DRINK, AND DEBT, by ALEXANDER BROME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink Last Line: Then I'll fall to loving and drinking again. Variant Title(s): The Mad Lover;drinking Song Subject(s): Debt; Drinks & Drinking; Love; Wine LYRICS OF DRINK: 1, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I turned me to the house of prayer Last Line: All, all proclaim the demon's rule! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Wine; Prohibition LYRICS OF DRINK: 2, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pour ye a wail of the wildest Last Line: Sublimed in eternity's fires! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Wine; Prohibition MAD JACK'S COCKATOO, by WILLIAN RYLAND Poem Text First Line: There's a man that went out in the floodtime and drought Last Line: Was his track-mate—the old cockatoo. Alternate Author Name(s): Bushie Bill Subject(s): Birds; Death; Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Dead, The; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness MADAME METTE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Says bender to peter over their wine Last Line: And lost my true dog also Subject(s): Churches;death;drinks & Drinking;singing & Singers; "cathedrals;dead, The; MAKING A CHAMPION, by HENRY E. HORNE Poem Text First Line: While bill was sitting by the door Last Line: A post for fifty pound. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Pride; Wine; Self-esteem; Self-respect MEDITATIONS OF MAN'S MORTALITIE: BACCHUS, by ALICE SUTCLIFFE Poem Text First Line: Bacchus that drunken god from hell comes forth Last Line: He into mischiefe, runneth headlong still. Subject(s): Bacchus; Drinks & Drinking; Mythology - Classical; Wine MINISTERING BEES, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Think you this topaz powder on the bee Last Line: Not merely honey drunken debauchees! Subject(s): Bees; Drinks & Drinking; Insects; Sex; Beekeeping; Wine; Bugs MINIVER CHEEVY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Miniver cheevy, child of scorn / grew lean while he assailed the seasons Last Line: And kept on drinking. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Dreams; Drinks & Drinking; Men; Nostalgia; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Nightmares; Wine MISERY AND FRUSTRATION, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say one part of wisdom Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Conduct Of Life; Wine MR. FLOOD'S PARTY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Old eben flood, climbing alone one night Last Line: That many friends had opened long ago. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Alienation (social Psychology); Drinks & Drinking; Old Age; Solitude; Toasts; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Estrangement; Outcasts; Wine; Loneliness MRS. PILSUDSKI'S UNCATHARTIC AFTERNOONS, by JOE HORRELL Poem Text First Line: Mrs. Pilsudski's afternoons in a pub Last Line: Sitting superannuated in a pub. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine MULLIGAN'S MARE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mulligan's bar was the deuce of a place Last Line: And send you a flyer like mulligan's mare. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Bars & Bartenders; Drinks & Drinking; Horses; Racing; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Wine MY CUP IS NEARLY EMPTY, by BEULAH RUSSELL MORGAN Poem Text First Line: My cup is nearly empty now Last Line: As my cup I daily tip. Subject(s): Aging; Drinks & Drinking; Wine MY FOE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "john alcohol, my foe, john" Last Line: "john alcohol, my foe" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking MY GRANDMA'S BREW, by JENNIE BETTS HARTSWICK Poem Text First Line: Somewhere, in lavender, is laid Last Line: The elder-flower's fragrant crown? Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Grandparents; Wine; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MY JOLLY FRIEND'S SECRET, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, friend of mine, how goes it Last Line: I am purty tight -- that's all! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Friendship; Kisses; Secrets; Wine MYNHEER VAN DUNCK, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER Poem Text First Line: Mynheer van dunck, though he never was drunk Last Line: Though deep as the rolling zuyder zee. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine NATIONAL DIFFERENCES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The frenchman loves his native wine Last Line: He drinks the whole damned business Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;national Characteristics NATURE'S DRINKING-SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth drinks rain through every pore Last Line: Come let us drink, drink, drink! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Earth; Moon; Nature; Singing & Singers; Wine; World NEEBOR JOHNNIE'S COMPLAINT, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My aul' neebor johnnie had lang been awa' Last Line: An' we'll ne'er pit him oot till we stop the supplies. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Neighbors; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Wine; Prohibition NEW YEAR'S DAY, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This trade that we ply with the pen Last Line: Drinc hael! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Holidays; New Year; Wine NEW YEAR'S EVE, by GEORGE ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a bottle and a friend Last Line: Making wondrous merry. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Holidays; New Year; Wine NILOTIC DRINKING SONG, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You may water your bays, brother-poets Last Line: And sing for the glory of ancient nilus! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Brooks; Drinks & Drinking; Silence; Singing & Singers; Streams; Creeks; Wine NO CHURCHMAN AM I FOR TO RAIL AND TO WRITE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet's Biography Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking NOW GOD BE WITH OLD SIMEON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Come trowl the bowl to me Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking NOW I'M RESOLVED TO LOVE NO MORE, by ALEXANDER BROME Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine NUNC EST BIBENDUM, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Water bring, and bring me wine Last Line: Tippling with good songs between. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 9. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE FIFTH EPIGRAM, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toasts as snakes or as the mortal henbane Last Line: But it drinks up ale: that hunks detesteth. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth is a thirsty drinker Last Line: Because I love to drink too. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cupid, whose lamp has lent the ray Last Line: To soothe my misery! Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know thou lov'st a brimming measure Last Line: Thus I enjoy the goblet most. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I fear that love disturbs my rest Last Line: Yet cannot find that madness there! Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From dread leucadia's frowning steep Last Line: For love intoxicates my mind! Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mix me, child, a cup divine Last Line: I surrender all my soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear girl of mytilene Last Line: To loved, but cruel phaon. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full bosomed maids of chio Last Line: Of aphrodite's nectar. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the smiling bard of pleasure Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me how to punish thee Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me gentle youth, I pray thee Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell how atys, wild with love Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Love; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will, I will, the conflict's past Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Count me, on the summer trees Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, why, my sweetest dove Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Love; Doves; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, whose soft and rosy hues Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Beauty; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now with all thy pencil's truth Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Beaty; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the star of day is high Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Drinks & Drinking; Wine; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here recline you, gentle maid Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Peace; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the harp of epic song Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day the muses twined the hands Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Observe when mother earth is dry Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Thirst; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The phrygian rock, that braves the storm Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Love; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I often wish this languid lyre Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Songs; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To all that breathe the airs of heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Beauty; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in each revolving year Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Swallows; Seasons; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy harp may sing of troy's alarms Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Eyes; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We read the flying courser's name Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Love; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As in the lemnian caves of fire Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Love; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes - loving is a painful thrill Last Line: Because I love to drink too. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen to the muse's lyre Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): City & Town Life; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in an airy [or, mocking] dream of night Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Love; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arm'd with hyacinthine rod Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Pain; Drinks & Drinking; Suffering; Misery; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strew me a fragrant bed of leaves Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Drinks & Drinking; Wine; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas noon of night, when round the pole Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Love; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cupid once upon a bed Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Bees; Drinks & Drinking; Beekeeping; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If hoarded gold possess'd a power Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Gold; Death; Drinks & Drinking; Dead, The; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas night, and many a circling bowl Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Drinks & Drinking; Wine; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us drain the nectar'd bowl Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Drinks & Drinking; Wine; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How I love the festive boy Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vulcan! Hear your glorious task Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Drinks & Drinking; Wine; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know that heaven ordains me here Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Mortality; Conduct Of Life; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When spring adorns the dewy scene Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Spring; Happiness; Drinks & Drinking; Joy; Delight; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, be the glorious revel mine Last Line: Because I love to drink too. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Pleasure; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While our rosy fillets shed Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Drinks & Drinking; Songs; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Buds of roses, virgin flowers Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Roses; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within this goblet, rich and deep Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Drinks & Drinking; Wine; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See [or, behold] the young, the rosy spring Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis true, my fading years decline Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Aging; Drinks & Drinking; Drinks & Drinking; Wine; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my thirsty soul I steep Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Drinks & Drinking; Wine; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When bacchus, jove's immortal boy Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Drinks & Drinking; Wine; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grave me a cup with brilliant grace Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Love; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poet's Biography First Line: When I drink, I feel, I feel [or, when wine I quaff, before my eyes] Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I drain the rosy bowl Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fly not thus my brow of snow Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Aging; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away, away, you men of rules Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I behold the festive train Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Youth; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks, the pictured bull we see Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Europa (mythology); Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While we invoke the wreathed spring Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Roses; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He, who instructs the youthful crew Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Festivals; Youth; Drinks & Drinking; Fairs; Pageants; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And whose immortal hand could shed Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Venus (goddess); Pictures; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When gold, as fleet as zephyr's pinion Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Gold; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poet's Biography First Line: Sabled by the solar beam Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As late I sought the spangled bowers Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake to life, my dulcet shell Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Apollo; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Golden hues of youth are fled Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Time; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fill me, boy, as deep a draught Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Drinks & Drinking; Wine; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To love, the soft and blooming child Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Love; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haste thee, nymph, whose winged spear Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Diana (goddess); Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like some wanton filly sporting Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Courtship; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, the queen of nymphs divine Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Marriage; Drinks & Drinking; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle youth! Whose looks assume Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Youth; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rich in bliss, I proudly scorn Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now neptune's sullen month appears Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The women tell me every day / that all my bloom has passed away Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They wove the lotus band to deck Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A broken cake, with honey sweet Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Singing And Singing; Food & Eating; Drinks & Drinking; Drinks & Drinking; Wine; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With twenty chords my lyre is hung Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fare thee well, perfidious maid Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bloom'd awhile, a happy flower Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Love; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Monarch love! Resistless boy Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Love; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of love, whose tresses shine Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poet's Biography First Line: Hither, gentle muse of mine Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poet's Biography First Line: Would that I were a tuneful lyre Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poet's Biography First Line: When cupid sees my beard of snow Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poet's Biography First Line: I care not for the idle state Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I pray thee, by the gods above Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Drinks & Drinking; Wine; Wine ODE (1), by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day is set did earth adorn Last Line: Health, and his sceptre to the king. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE (4), by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us drink away the time Last Line: Protector, I will ask no more. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE FOR A SOCIAL MEETING, WITH SLIGHT ALTERATIONS BY A TEETOTALER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come! Fill a fresh bumper, for why should we go Last Line: Oliver wendell holmes. Subject(s): Censorship; Drinks & Drinking; Temperance; Wine; Prohibition ODES I, 28. ON PROHIBITION AND TEMPERANCE; TO VARUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Canst thou, o varus, plant a tree Last Line: So may I live—to drink again! Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Temperance; Wine; Prohibition ODES III, 21. TO HIS WINE-VESSELS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kind brother butt! As old, and brisk, as I Last Line: Till phoebus puts the stars to flight. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine OF DRUNKENESS, by ANTIMEDON Poem Text First Line: At night when ale is in Last Line: Then hatred is in head. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Wine OF LOVE AND WINE, by CHARLES GAMAGE EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: Of love and wine old poets sung Last Line: With kisses paid his lyre! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Love; Poetry & Poets; Wine OLD NOAH'S INVENTION, by GEORGE NEAVES Poem Text First Line: We read that old noah, soon after the flood Last Line: And can make a right use, of old noah's invention. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Noah (bible); Wine OLD ROSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Now we're met like jovial fellows Last Line: "and burn, burn, burn the bellows" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking OLD SIMON THE KING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If a man should be drunk to-night Last Line: "indeed all flesh is frail, / says old simon the king" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking ON A CLUB OF SOTS, by SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jolly members of a toping club Last Line: For nothing else but only to hold drink. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ON A QUAKER'S TANKARD, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye lie, friend pindar! And friend thales Last Line: Nothing so good as water? Ale is. Subject(s): Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Ale; Wine ON THE DOWNS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Squeeze out the cowslip-wine and let me drink Last Line: My landscape; -- she is with me; -- I can die. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Drinks & Drinking; Orion (mythology); Silence; Dead, The; Nightmares; Wine ON VISITING THE GREAT DUBLIN BREWERY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brewing the best way hard money to win is Last Line: Guinness makes porter, and porter makes guineas. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Dublin, Ireland; Ale; Wine ON WINE, by HESIOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wine cheers our hearts, and makes us glad Last Line: Till we our freedom get by sleep. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine ONCE A FRENCHMAN WHO'D PROMPTLY SAID 'OUI', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Was a tipple no stronger than toui Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking ORGAN SONGS: MARRIAGE SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They have no more wine!' she said Last Line: Brimming full of heavenly wine. Subject(s): Cana, Galilee; Drinks & Drinking; Feasts; Jesus Christ; Marriage; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Water; Wedding Song; Women - Bible; Wine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Virgin Mary; Epithalamium OUR LOCAL SCENERY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Smoorin' wi' reek an' blackened wi' soot Last Line: Whaur drinkin' an' swearin' nae mair wad molest. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Wine OUR SON SWEARS HE HAS 102 GALLONS OF WATER IN HIS BODY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere a mistaken word distorts the sum Last Line: That nobody could break. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Milk; Parents; Water; Wine; Milkmen; Milkmaids; Parenthood OUT O' THE STARS, by MORA SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Out o' the stars an' out o' the wind an' out o' the / sea stole I Last Line: The proper folk never forgave me quite. But oh, what a night and a day! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine OVER DRINKS, by RANDY BLASING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drink, drank, drunk, roman Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine PATENT BROWN STOUT, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A brewer, in a country town Last Line: "and boil him down at every brewing?" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): African Americans; Drinks & Drinking; Negroes; American Blacks; Wine PAUSE TO SAVOR, by LEONARD SNYDER Poem Text First Line: I would drink the shadowed wine Last Line: I shall not stop to think. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine PER DIEM, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spherically wondrous sunbeam Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Women; Unemployment; Wine PLANTATION DRINKING SONG, by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: De ladies in de parlour Last Line: "a-drinkin' branbdy toddy, / good-mornin', ladies all" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;southern States; South (u.s.) POP, POP, POP!, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Pop goes the pop fly Last Line: Pop, pop, pop! Subject(s): Baseball; Drinks & Drinking; Sound; Sports; Wine PORTOFINO, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, on his wine - Last Line: Turned gold in the fall? Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Memory; Wine POUR FORTH THE WINE!, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pour forth the wine! The ruby wine! Last Line: To bless the ruby wine! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine PRINCETON TOAST, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I had a barrel of rum Last Line: To drown trouble in? Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine QUALITY OF WINE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This wine is really awful Last Line: Let the dying be long. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sickness; Dead, The; Wine; Male-female Relations; Illness QUID SIT FUTURUM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Drink and be merry: there is no man knows Last Line: And you have not Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking R-E-M-O-R-S-E, by GEORGE ADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cocktail is a pleasant drink Last Line: The cold, grey dawn of the morning after. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine RAISING A HUMID FLAG, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enough women over thirty are at redbones for Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine RATTLIN,' ROARIN' WILLIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O rattlin,' roarin' willie Last Line: You're welcome hame to me! Subject(s): Seduction; Friendship; Drinks & Drinking RED WINE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography 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 REJOICING AT THE ARRIVAL OF CH'EN HSIUNG, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the yellow bird's note was almost stopped Last Line: For it makes us tell the story of our whole lives. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Drinks & Drinking; Friendship; Wine ROBIN'S MISTAKE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What do you think red robin Last Line: And that was all I heard. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Robins; Wine ROMNEY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, romney, nay -- I will not hear you say Last Line: You know not what love is -- now go away! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Lips; Love - Loss Of; Thirst; Wine ROSY WINE, by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mistress' frowns are hard to bear Last Line: My griefs I quench in rosy wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine RUSTIC COURTSHIP, by WILLIAM D. LATTO Poem Text First Line: Ance on a time twa gallant swains gaed forth upo' the spree Last Line: But where they gaed, an' hoo they fared, the gudeness only kens! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Love; Wine SACRIFICE, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no wine unless the grape is crushed Last Line: Through sorrow and the body's pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Bread; Drinks & Drinking; Pain; Sacrifices; Wine; Suffering; Misery SAINT PATRICK WAS A GENTLEMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Forget the good saint patrick / and see the snakes again Subject(s): "drinks & Drinking;patrick, Saint (5th Century);toasts; SANIBEL ISLAND, by MARTHA RONK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lizards crawl the screen again, it's sanibel august Last Line: Upside down, welcomes all gods crfeatures in Subject(s): Sanibel Island, Florida; Drinks & Drinking; Family Life; Summer; Lizards SCROGGAM, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a wife wonn'd in cockpen, scroggam Last Line: Scroggam, my dearie, ruffum. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER: SONG, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain Last Line: Toroddle, toroddle, toroll. Variant Title(s): She Stoops To Conquer: The Three Pigeons Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine SHOULD I DIE BY THE FORCE OF GOOD WINE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Who with drinking made his grave Subject(s): Carpe Diem;drinks & Drinking SICILIAN WINE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've drunk sicilia's crimson wine! Last Line: To mount thy car and ride the heavens with thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Wine SIR TOBY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "as sir toby reel'd home, with his skin full of wine" Last Line: And sir toby steer'd home by the help of his tail Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking SIT DOON BY ME, MY CANTY FREEND, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Within we're roarin' wet! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Transcience SIX WISE FOOLS, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve had struck. Our talk subsided Last Line: "I drink to that which makes us one." Subject(s): Fools; Drinks & Drinking SLEWED!, by HENRY (HARRY) HARBORD MORANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was threatening to rain as the red sun sank down Last Line: Like paddy, my mate, in the dark get astray. Alternate Author Name(s): Breaker, The; Lumpkin, Tony Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Animals; Drinks & Drinking; Horses; Travel; Wine; Journeys; Trips SOBER THEN DRUNK AGAIN, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the lightning-struck pin oak, Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As swift as time put round the glass Last Line: For to be merry's to be wise Subject(s): Carpe Diem;drinks & Drinking SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He that will not merry merry be Last Line: And put me in his stead: / let him be merry Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In spite of love at length I've found Last Line: Tis a bottle of good claret Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'tis my will when I die, not a tear shall be shed" Last Line: And write that his drinking is done Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking SONG, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drink ye to her that each loves best Last Line: As she would love to hear. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Love; Fall SONG (7), by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our old moll has got a trick Last Line: Hand a mug of foaming flip. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Ale; Wine SONG FOR THE SQUEEZE BOX, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Gambling; Money; Loss; Unemployment; Wine; Wagering; Betting SONG OF A FALLEN ANGEL OVER A BOWL OF RUM-PUNCH, by JOHN WILSON (UNCERTAIN IDENTITY) Poem Text First Line: Heap on more coal there Last Line: With hey cow rumble o, etc. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine SONG OF THE DECANTER, by ALFRED GIBBS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old decanter Last Line: "tread the dismal road of death." Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine SONG; FOR A FESTIVAL IN FANEUIL HALL, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fill, brothers, fill! -- the brightest pour Last Line: For us, &c. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Festivals; Wine; Fairs; Pageants SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 10, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, harry, what ails you, why look you so sad? Last Line: For one it relieves, and it strengthens the other. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Thought; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness; Thinking SPACE BAR, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lined up behind the space bartender Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Drinks & Drinking; Wine SPIRIT-TAPPING, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The appearance of spirits, it fills me with dread Last Line: "for my brandy has all disappeared in the night." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Supernatural; Wine STANZAS TO AN INTOXICATED FLY, by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's a singular fact that whenever I order Last Line: For such an occasion than animal food. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Flies; Wine STANZAS TO PALE ALE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh! I have loved thee fondly, ever" Last Line: Like stout and porter -- fattening slops Subject(s): Beer;drinks & Drinking; Ale STRONG BEER, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What do you think Last Line: "the grave as little as my beer." Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Ale; Wine SUITE TO APPLENESS: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you love me drink this discolored wine Last Line: Her mountains strewn and crushed. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Apples; Christianity; Drinks & Drinking; Fruit; Judgments; Temptation; Wine SUMMER'S REVEL, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text 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 SUSSEX DRINKING SONG, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sell good beer at haslemere Last Line: For a bellyful of good ale. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine TAKE THE GLASS AWAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: I will never drink water Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking TARPAULING JACKET, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am a young jolly brisk sailor Last Line: And fiddle and dance to my grave Subject(s): Death;drinks & Drinking;love;sailing & Sailors; "dead, The; TAVERN SONG, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When winterly weather doth pierce to the skin Last Line: And ho! For a tankard of ale at the inn. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Drinks & Drinking; Singing & Singers; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Wine THE ALCHEMIST, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: There lives an old man at the top of a street Last Line: So dry agents never can raid it. Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Drinks & Drinking; Wine THE BAR-TENDER'S STORY, by DAVID LAW PROUDFIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I knowed him at first there was suthin' Last Line: And a baby was into the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Arkwright, Pegleg Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Ale; Wine THE BITER BIT, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jack dobson, honest son of tillage Last Line: "must expect rubbers!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Time; Wine THE BLESSED RAIN, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear heart, dost thou complain Last Line: For every drop that quivers on a clod! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Rain; Thirst; Wine THE BLIND GIRL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kind christians, pray list to me Last Line: From drinking either whisky, rum, or gin. Subject(s): Blindness; Child Molesting; Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Human Behavior; Visually Handicapped; Child Abuse; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE BOHEMIA OF THE HEART AND PENNY ROMANCES: THE GREAT DRUNKENNESS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Through the blue summer nights when the cicadas sing, god over Last Line: Creation-wide. Scarce drunk it bears me hence, and I was still athirst! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Wine THE BOTTLE AND THE BIRD, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time a friend of mine prevailed Last Line: Of the large cold bottle,—not the small hot bird. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine THE BOTTOM, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stopped drinking on my way down the hill Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine THE BRIDE, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse Last Line: "am reason, and the other was a dream." Subject(s): Reason; Drinks & Drinking; Rerality; Dreams; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Wine; Nightmares THE CALIPH'S DRAUGHT, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a day in ramadan Last Line: "by god! Delicious is this draught!" Subject(s): Arabs; Drinks & Drinking; Wine THE CARELESS GALLANT, by THOMAS JORDAN Poem Text First Line: Let us drink and be merry, dance, joke, and rejoice Last Line: Since all shall be nothing a hundred years hence. Variant Title(s): Coronemus Nos Rosis Antequam;the Epicure;song Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Dead, The; Wine THE CARLES OF DYSART, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up wi' the carles of dysart Last Line: Hey, ca' thro', &c. Variant Title(s): Hey Ca' Thro' Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Drinks & Drinking THE CAVALIER'S CHOICE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a gallant cavalier of honor and reknown Last Line: Look kindly, and reply. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Dead, The; Wine THE CENTENARIAN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't think we shall Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Drinks & Drinking; Wine THE CLINK OF THE ICE, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Notably fond of music, I dote on a sweeter tone Last Line: Of the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine THE CRUISKEEN LAWN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Let the farmer praise his grounds Last Line: "to fill another cruiskeen lawn, etc." Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking THE CUP OF MENALCHUS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Tityrus, on my cup warmly the season glows! Beneficent tityrus Last Line: Discourse. . . . Hum! Hum! . . . The season's warm on my cup, good tityrus! Subject(s): Cups; Drinks & Drinking; Life; Love; Wine THE CZAR PETER, SELECTION, by JOHN O'KEEFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Noah built a mighty ship Last Line: Or he'd ne'er have ventured out. Alternate Author Name(s): O'keefe, John Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine THE DESERTER['S MEDITATION], by JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If sadly thinking, / with [or, and] spirits sinking Last Line: Before we go! Variant Title(s): Let Us Be Merry Before We Go Subject(s): Abandonment; Drinks & Drinking; Desertion; Wine THE DEVIL ON THE ROCK, by G. M. SMITH Poem Text First Line: There's a rock out in the never Last Line: Of old-man kangaroos. Alternate Author Name(s): Grey, Steele Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Dead, The; Wine THE DRINK, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am always interested in the people in films who have just had a drink Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Drinks & Drinking; Movies; Cinema; Wine THE DRINKER, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You -- breathless Last Line: Will take you out Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine THE DRINKER'S COMMANDMENTS, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These ten commandments you'll observe Last Line: In these brief maxims speaks again. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine THE DRINKING MATCH, SELECTION, by PHILIP WHARTON Poem Text First Line: God prosper long our noble king Last Line: Such drinking as that day. Alternate Author Name(s): Philip, Duke Of Wharton Subject(s): Chevy Chase (ballad); Drinks & Drinking; Chevy Chace; Wine THE DUENNA: THE FRIAR'S CHORUS, by RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This bottle's the sun of our table Last Line: And shine as he goes round. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine THE DUFF, by DAVID MCKEE WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: It was on a sunday morning, the church was far away Last Line: "and fast enough." Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Death; Drinks & Drinking; Food & Eating; Dead, The; Wine THE EMPTY BOTTLE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, liberty! How like thou art Last Line: The simple memory of beer! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine THE FLITCH OF BACON: MY OLD COMPLAINT (ITS CAUSE AND CURE), by WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sadly afraid of my old complaint Last Line: With the cause and the cure of my old complaint! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Thirst; Wine THE GOOD FELLOW, by ALEXANDER BROME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, stay, shut the gates Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 1. THE MOTHER MARY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, to thee the heart was given Last Line: His life from hers he drew. Subject(s): Bible; Drinks & Drinking; Family Life; Grief; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Wine; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 11. THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the hot sun, for water cool Last Line: She has the master found! Subject(s): Bible; Drinks & Drinking; Generosity; Jesus Christ; Women; Wine THE GROANS OF THE TANKARD, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of strange events I sing, and portents dire Last Line: And the air vibrates with the silver sound. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine THE HARVEST HOME, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: The harvest home's a home indeed Last Line: Is -- by my soul and body -- ale! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Ale; Wine THE HAYMAKER'S SONG, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to him that grows it Last Line: Drink, lads, drink! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Hay & Haymaking; Wine THE HIGH AND MIGHTY COMMENDATION OF THE VIRTUE OF A POT OF GOOD ALE, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not drunken nor sober (but neighbour to both Last Line: To make all this good of a pot of good ale. Subject(s): Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Ale; Wine THE HONEST FELLOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "pho! Pox o' this nonsense, I prithee give o'er" Last Line: "boys, fill up a bumper and let it go round!" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking THE HUMOURS OF LONDON, SELECTION, by GEORGE ALEXANDER STEPHENS Poem Text First Line: What are misses, the muses, to mine mouldy casks? Last Line: Sing tantarrara. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine THE INSULT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I've swum the colorado where she runs close down Subject(s): Cowboys;drinks & Drinking;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States THE JOLLY BEGGARS; A CANTATA RECITATIVO, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When lyart leaves bestrow the yird Last Line: One and all cry out, amen! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Poverty; Brotherhood; Seduction; Wit & Humor; Labor & Laborers THE JOLLY TOPPER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the women all tell me, I'm false to my lass" Last Line: "should you doubt what I say, take a bumper and try!" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking THE LAST WAVE (BEFORE PROHIBITION), by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: In solid ranks the bottles stood Last Line: The final wave had surged and passed! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Temperance; Wine; Prohibition THE LAY OF THE LEGION, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was in the legion Last Line: Like a regular poltroon! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Life; War; Wine THE LEATHER BOTTEL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When I survey the world around Last Line: So I wish Subject(s): Bottles;drinks & Drinking THE LITTLE I DRINK, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lord, pray excuse the remonstrance I Last Line: "the great deal I drink is when dinner is o'er." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine THE LOVING CUP, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tranced in the glamour of a Last Line: Our mutual loves, o loving cup! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cups; Drinks & Drinking; Memory; Wine THE MALTWORM'S MADRIGAL, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I drink of the ale of southwark, I drink of the ale of chepe Last Line: For when my tongue is loosed most, then most I lose my speech. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Ale; Wine THE MIRACLE, by R. J. CASSIDY Poem Text First Line: Excitement reigned at piker's pub. Even old piker gazed Last Line: Jamboree joe had ridden by—yes, he had ridden by! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilrooney Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Drinks & Drinking; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Wine THE MODERN TIPPLING PHILOSOPHERS, by JAMES HAY BEATTIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father hodge had his pipe and his dram Last Line: If I blame, be assured I am tipsy. Subject(s): Bacon, Roger (1214-1292); Drinks & Drinking; Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679); Philosophy & Philosophers; Science; Wine; Scientists THE MYSTIC, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By seven vineyards on one hill Last Line: All seven on one hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine THE NIGHT BEFORE AND THE MORNING AFTER, by B. JABEZ" "JENKINS [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "a gilded mirror, a polished bar" Last Line: "did I swear off and quit? No, I got soused again" Alternate Author Name(s): "jenkins, B. Jabez; Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking THE OLD REPROBATE'S SONG, by OLIVER MARBLE Poem Text First Line: When I was young I'd capacity Last Line: At how much I once was drinking. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 116, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose wine shop is this aglow Last Line: They growl and off he runs Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Drinks & Drinking; Wine THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 118, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The month when farmers escape the heat Last Line: Sumeru is just a pea Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Drinks & Drinking; Farm Life; Heat; Wine; Agriculture; Farmers THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 7, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wine of wisdom is so cold Last Line: Free of shame and glory Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Drinks & Drinking; Freedom; Wisdom; Wine; Liberty THE POET'S INSPIRATION, by CRATINUS Poem Text First Line: If with water you fill up your glasses Last Line: Which hurries a bard to the skies. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Drinks & Drinking; Inspiration; Creativity; Wine THE PUBLICAN'S NEW SUNDAY ACT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Now what do you think of this wonderful act Last Line: And guzzle enough for to last you a week Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;england;sabbath; English;sunday THE SIGN-BOARD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will paint you a sign, rumseller Last Line: So terribly, fearfully true. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Dead, The; Wine THE SNAKES, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are the snakes that rowdy saw Last Line: But he thinks of the snakes, and—he lets it go by. Subject(s): Animals; Drinks & Drinking; Hallucinations & Illusions; Snakes; Wine; Serpents; Vipers THE SPRING, by GARY SYNDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beating asphalt into highway potholes Subject(s): Reparing; Roads; Drinks & Drinking; Paths; Trails; Wine THE SQUIRE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have sung me a stave, a stave or two Last Line: That ever death did house. Variant Title(s): The Young Squire Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Sea; Dead, The; Wine; Ocean THE STOCKMAN'S CHEQUE, by ERNEST WILLIAM HORNUNG Poem Text First Line: There's a hut in riverina where a solitary hand Last Line: As before. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Poverty; Wine THE SWALLOWS, by RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prince came in and said 't was cold Last Line: When he pronounced it summer. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine THE THREE GOLDEN BALLS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deadlier balls than north or south Last Line: Resume the sceptre and the rein. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Wine; Prohibition THE TOAST: A SEA SONG, by CHARLES CAPRON MARSH Poem Text First Line: Come drink to the toast that I give ye Last Line: Drink health to our sweethearts and wives. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Sailing & Sailors; Toasts; Water; Wine THE TRAVELING MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could I pour out the nectar the gods only can Last Line: Will welcome the traveling man! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Hearts; Travel; Wine; Journeys; Trips THE TWO GLASSES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There sat two glasses filled to the brim Last Line: On the rich man's table, rim to rim. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Cups; Drinks & Drinking; Fables; Water; Wealth; Wine; Allegories; Riches; Fortunes THE VICTIM OF DRINK; THE EARLY LOST, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The early lost I mourn Last Line: For ever pray. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Social Protest; Temperance; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Wine; Prohibition THE VINEYARD-SAINT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She, pacing down the vineyard walks Last Line: "of pardon and of holiness!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Drinks & Drinking; Love; Saints; Vines And Vineyards; Wine THE WATER DRINKER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Drink! Drink! Drink! Last Line: "not a drink for me / drink, drink, etc." Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking THE WAY OF IT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a little learning, scattered o'er" Last Line: The sober college graduate Subject(s): Alcohol & Alcoholics;drinks & Drinking;schools;universities & Colleges; Students THE WEARY PUND O' TOW, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The weary pund, the weary pund Last Line: The weary pund, &c. Subject(s): Marriage; Drinks & Drinking THE WINE OF LIFE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earthen jar of quaint design Last Line: Tis in age that one lives best. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Life; Youth; Wine THE WINE OF LOVE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The wine of love, - a winged wine Last Line: I quaff, and all the world is mine. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Love Affairs; Wine THE WINE OF NIGHT, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come,drink the mystic wine of night Last Line: With faith and fire! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Despair; Drinks & Drinking; War; Wine THE WINE PRESS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A murdered man, ten miles away Last Line: Thro' a red volcanic sky ... Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Murder; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; Wine; First World War THEN--, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: When elephants are crimson Last Line: To let the hooch alone! Variant Title(s): Then- Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Wine THEY'RE TAXING ALE AGAIN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Ale's no false liar; though his mind Last Line: The only honest man. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Taxes; Ale; Wine THINGS TO DO IN SALZBURG, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Walk, alone / the narrow lane from st. Peter's Last Line: As my father. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Drinks & Drinking; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Wine THIRD AVENUE IN SUNLIGHT, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Last Line: My bar is somewhat further down the street Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine TO -, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir / yours this moment I unseal Last Line: Robert burns. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Religion; Wit & Humor TO A CIVIL SERVANT, by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brim the jewelled cup, lad Subject(s): Youth; Drinks & Drinking; Wine TO A FLY, TAKEN OUT OF A BOWL OF PUNCH, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Poor intoxicated little knave Last Line: Then, like an alligator, drags him in. Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Flies; Wine TO JULIUS, by CHARLES SEDLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou swear'st thou'lt drink no more; kind heaven send Last Line: Me such a cook, or coachman: but no such friend. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine TO MR. ALEXANDER BROME; EPODE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now let us drink, and with our nimble feet Last Line: Extract one mirth to balance all. Subject(s): Brome, Alexander (1620-1666); Drinks & Drinking; Wine TO MR. JOHN KENNEDY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now kennedy, if foot or horse Last Line: An' gude be wi' you. Subject(s): Friendship; Poverty; Drinks & Drinking TO MR. SYME WITH A DOZEN OF PORTER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, had the malt thy strength of mind Last Line: A gift that e'en for syme were fit. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Gifts & Giving; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Ale; Wine TO ONE DEMANDING WHY WINE SPARKLES, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So diamonds sparkle, and thy mistress' eyes Last Line: Then if he took some chilling opiate. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine TO THE REVD. MR. - ON HIS DRINKING SEA WATER, by JOHN WINSTANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks, dear tom, I see thee stand demure Last Line: By ward's mysterious drop or magic pill. Subject(s): Clergy; Drinks & Drinking; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Wine TO THE WINE-GOD MERLUS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Ho! Thou jolly god, with kinked Last Line: And roll me o'er thy tongue eternally. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Soul; Wine TO-DAY WE'LL HASTE TO QUAFF OUR WINE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: We'll haste to quaff our wine again Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking TOBACCO NEXT, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They took away your drink from you, Last Line: Don't make the same mistake again. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Smoking; Temperance; Wine; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Prohibition TOM JOHNSON'S QUIT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A passel o' the boys last night Last Line: "tom johnson's quit!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine TRINC: PRAISES II, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, when the grand nudes, golden as fields of grain Last Line: Hallelujah! For the people's beer! And for all his comrades: praise! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Native Americans; Ale; Wine; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America TRISTANESQUE, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No wine was ever Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Death; Wine; Dead, The TRUTH, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Truth, they say, lies in a well Last Line: "is the ""veritas in vino." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Truth; Wine TUGG MARTIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tugg martin's tough.-- no Last Line: "all I know is -- he's dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Dead, The; Wine TWO SONGS FOR THE OPP, by PAUL BLACKBURN Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine UNTITLED, 1968; FOR MARK ROTHKO, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's no such thing as an emergency Last Line: I know someone, or his assistant, suffered here Variant Title(s): Veronica Subject(s): Blood; Drinks & Drinking; Evening; Wine; Sunset; Twilight UP IN THE AIR, by ALLAN RAMSAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the sun's gane out o' sight Last Line: Dinna cheat, but drink fair, Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine UPON DRINKING IN A BOWL, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vulcan contrive me such a cup Last Line: And then to love again. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Variant Title(s): Upon His Drinking A Bowl Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Dutch War, Third (1672-1674); Maastricht, Netherlands; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Wine UPON THIS PASSAGE IN THE SCALIGERIANA, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you with high-dutch heeren dine Last Line: They always talk, who never think. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Travel; Wine; Journeys; Trips VENDEMIAIRE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remember me you men in years to come Last Line: With the fading stars dawn was about to break Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Paris, France; Wine VENGEANCE OF THE DAMNED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The snoring in the flophouse was very loud, as usual Last Line: It was muscated Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Flop-houses; Wine VERS LIBRE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drink to me with thine eyes, exclusively Last Line: Terrorizing her to the point of departure. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 6, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When gullion died (who knows not gullion?) Last Line: Desunt nonnulla. Variant Title(s): Toothless Satires: A Drunkard Arrives In Hades Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Soul; Wine WALKS LIKE THIS, by G. A. P. (19TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: He was dry as georgie's poodle and was quickly growing worse Last Line: "this!!!" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Practical Jokes; Revenge; Wine; Pranks WASH ME WHEN I'M DEAD IN THE JUICE OF THE VINE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "search the dust of the tavern, and sift from it mine, dear friends" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking WATER SONG, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The feast's begun Last Line: Like streams of water, streams of water. Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Thirst; Water; Wine; Judaism WE ARE ALL JOLLY FELLOWS THAT FOLLOW THE PLOUGH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was early one morning at the break of the day Last Line: We are all jolly fellows that follow the plough Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;plowing & Plowmen WEIN GEIST, by CHARLES GODFREY LELAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stoompled oud ov a dafern Last Line: If a damsel or dream vas she! Alternate Author Name(s): Breitmann, Hans Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine WELL, WHY NOT?, by L. T. Poem Text First Line: Rhymer byron was a rake Last Line: I too ought to be a poet. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Poetry & Poets; Wine WHAT ABOUT THIS, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A guy comes walking out of the garden Subject(s): Shooting; Drinks & Drinking; Music & Musicians; Strangers; Wine WHAT MAKES A FRIEND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "when I am drinking, drink with me" Last Line: Be sad and sober too Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;friendship WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When she says margarita she means daiquiri. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Drinks & Drinking; Absence; Wine; Separation; Isolation WHEN THE TEAMS BROUGHT IN THE WOOL, by BARNEY O'TOOLE Poem Text First Line: I loaded at george elbourne's some thirty bales of wool Last Line: He simply took the good with the bad, and brought the wool-clip down. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Nostalgia; Trucks & Trucking; Wine WHICH IS THE PROPEREST DAY TO DRINK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Why should I name but one day? Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking WHITENESS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White roses set in ivory urns Last Line: The white sea of the tears of god. Subject(s): Blood; Drinks & Drinking; Flowers; Jesus Christ; Night; Roses; Tears; Wine; Bedtime WHY, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For a name unknown Last Line: So long ago. Subject(s): Dust; Drinks & Drinking WHY DRINK WINE, by HENRY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I the reasons well divine Last Line: "or -- any other reason why." Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine WHY NOT?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a young man who said: 'why Last Line: "well, you never can tell till you try" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking WILLIE DRUNK AGAIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, willie, you've come home, lad" Last Line: And ne'er get drunk again Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;hearts;poverty WINE, by FRIEDRICH MARTIN VON BODENSTEDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the goblet's magic measure Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine WINE, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love wine! Bold bright wine! Last Line: Immortal wine! Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine WINE AND DEATH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On tender grass, 'neath a laurel-tree Last Line: Who saves his goods for his heirs! Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Life; Dead, The; Wine WINE PREFERRED TO WOMEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "when I visit proud celia, just come from my glass" Last Line: "let her go to the devil, there's no more to be said" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking WINE SONG, by JUDAH AL-HARIZI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, beneath this spreading tree Last Line: Oceans of wine that e'er grows old. Alternate Author Name(s): Yehuda Alharizi; Judah Ben Solomon Harizi Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Jews; Thirst; Wine; Judaism WITH OMAR, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sat with omar by the tavern door Last Line: Would ask and answer -- trust and doubt and pray. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Future Life; Soul; Dead, The; Wine; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WORKS AND DAYS: SPENDING AND SPARING, by HESIOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the jar is just begun Last Line: Of the lees. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine WOULD YOU BE A MAN OF FASHION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking |
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