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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 ROYAL, by THOMAS JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
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         Poet Analysis         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 CUP OF TREMBLINGS, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Facing deep wine raised in the
Last Line: In an unshadowed meadow
Subject(s): Wine


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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis            
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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis            
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


ALGONQUIN AFTERTHOUGHTS, by RACHEL WETZSTEON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 INVITATION TO A DRINKFEST, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


ANACREONTIC, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 1, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Separation; Wine


BE DRUNK, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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


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 Analysis             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


CAVATINA, by JEFFREY LEVINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: It may be there's a time of day when everything
Subject(s): Beaujolais Wine; Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Love - Nature Of; Music & Musicians; Obsessions


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis            
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     Poem Explanation                 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 Analysis             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


DAWN WHISKEY, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


DISCUSSION AFTER THE FIFTH OR SIXTH, by KENNETH FEARING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, about the other one, the sober one
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine


DOLORES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 BY THE CARIB SEA: 3. TEESTAY, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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         Poet Analysis            
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 OF THIS CUP, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 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


DRINKING FRENCH WINE IN MIDDLE AMERICA, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         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         Poet Analysis         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         Poet Analysis            
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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He looked, and gave me beauty
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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


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     Poem Explanation                 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 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 Analysis             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


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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


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 Analysis             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


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


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 WAS JUST FROSTED, by SUSAN WHEELER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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


IDYLL 29. LOVES, by BLITHELY WHIRLING DISTAFF    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sincerity comes with the wine-cup, dear
Subject(s): Wine; Truth


IN A COUNTRY CEMETERY, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 CALIFORNIA WINES, by YVOR WINTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amid these clear and windy hills
Last Line: In sunlight vanish quite away
Subject(s): California; Wine


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 Analysis             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


JET, by TONY HOAGLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some poems, / right some poems
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine


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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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


LETTERS TO YESENIN: 5, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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


LINES ON ALE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fill with mingled cream and amber
Last Line: I am drinking ale today.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine


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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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


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


MICHEL'S WINE, by SANDRA ALCOSSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Winter again and we want
Last Line: This moment in my glass
Subject(s): Wine; Automobile Accidents


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     Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They say one part of wisdom
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Conduct Of Life; Wine


MOTHER GOOSE (3), by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I saw in the moon
Last Line: I'll drink mine
Subject(s): Moon; Rabbits; Wine


MR. FLOOD'S PARTY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 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 Analysis             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


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 Analysis             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


NOW I'M RESOLVED TO LOVE NO MORE, by ALEXANDER BROME    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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


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 Analysis             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


ORGAN SONGS: MARRIAGE SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spherically wondrous sunbeam
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Women; Unemployment; Wine


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 Analysis             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


POURRITURE NOBLE, by MARIE PONSOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never prophesy.
Subject(s): Wine; Aging; Time


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 Analysis             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


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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enough women over thirty are at redbones for
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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


SENT WITH A BOTTLE OF BURGUNDY FOR A BIRTHDAY, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Drop by / drop it
Last Line: Unshattered, yes, and undimmed
Subject(s): Wine


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


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


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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the lightning-struck pin oak,
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine


SONG, by MARY ELIZABETH BROOKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, while with wine the goblets flow
Last Line: And snap the chain of memory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Norna; Aikin, Mary Elizath
Subject(s): Wine


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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


STRONG BEER, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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


TAVERN SONG, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis            
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 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 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     Poem Explanation                 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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis            
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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 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 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 Analysis             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 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 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 RED POOL, by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh dear here we are again in a pool of blood
Subject(s): Wine


THE SIGN-BOARD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 WINE, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Red is the body's own deep song
Last Line: That is the wine of life
Subject(s): Wine; Red (color)


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis            
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         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Last Line: My bar is somewhat further down the street
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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. SYME WITH A DOZEN OF PORTER, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine


UNHOLY SONNET: 25, by MARK JARMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing but pleasure in the bottle's voice
Last Line: As butter and olive oil, only pleasure watches
Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7
Subject(s): Pleasure; Food & Eating; Wine


UNTITLED, 1968; FOR MARK ROTHKO, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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


VINTAGE ABSENCE, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down on the closet's darkened floor
Last Line: By moonlight sipped, will guard our sleep
Subject(s): 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


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


WEIN GEIST, by CHARLES GODFREY LELAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A guy comes walking out of the garden
Subject(s): Shooting; Drinks & Drinking; Music & Musicians; Strangers; Wine


WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN, by DAVID LEHMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


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 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


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 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