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Song (My goblet's golden lips are dry)

by Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1803–1849

From Victorian Songs (1895)

Love

My goblet's golden lips are dry,
And, as the rose doth pine
For dew, so doth for wine
My goblet's cup;
Rain, O! rain, or it will die;
Rain, fill it up!

Arise, and get thee wings to-night,
AEtna! and let run o'er
Thy wines, a hill no more,
But darkly frown
A cloud, where eagles dare not soar,
Dropping rain down.

MLA

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell. “Song (My goblet's golden lips are dry).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/beddoes/12/.

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Beddoes, Thomas Lovell. “Song (My goblet's golden lips are dry).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/beddoes/12/.

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