Drink and fill the night with mirth! Let us have a mighty measure, Till we quite forget the earth, And soar into the world of pleasure. Drink and let a health go round, ('Tis the drinker's noble duty), To the eyes that shine and wound, To the mouths that bud in beauty. Fill the deep-mouthed glasses high! Let them with the champagne tremble, Like the loose wrack in the sky, When the four wild winds assemble! Here's to all the love on earth, (Love, the young man's, wise man's treasure!) Drink, and fill your throats with mirth! Drink, and drown the world in pleasure. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A DREAM, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE THE WELL OF ST. KEYNE by ROBERT SOUTHEY THERE IS NOTHING STRANGE by ARCHILOCHUS THE LAY OF THE LEGION by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN CASTLES IN THE AIR by JAMES BALLANTYNE |