(13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939 / County Dublin / Ireland)

poet William Butler Yeats
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A Drinking Song

WINE comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That's all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you, and I sigh.

Submitted: Tuesday, May 15, 2001
Edited: Tuesday, May 15, 2001


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  • Scotty Dogg (11/28/2012 1:11:00 PM)

    He died in his seventies

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  • Adeline Foster (4/16/2012 2:34:00 PM)

    How sad that that was all he knew of truth, and to die so young so sad.

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  • Barbara Nixon (4/12/2012 4:36:00 PM)

    Short and accurate, perfect.

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  • Andrew Hoellering (12/15/2009 2:52:00 AM)

    Simply terrific, i.e. both simple and terrific.Beauty is perceived as truth thanks to el vino. Yeats is saying that's all we know on earth, and all we need to know.The qualities here characterise some of his best poems, especially those of the last period of his life.

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  • Malini Kadir (10/19/2008 11:08:00 AM)

    short and expansive at the same time....loved is way of expressing....

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  • a clown needs a circus (3/25/2008 5:08:00 AM)

    new poems need new words: beyondtiful

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  • Max Reif (10/30/2005 7:43:00 AM)

    Amen, Sheila......so wonderful!

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