Living
A Drinking-Song
From The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900)
Living
Bacchus must now his power resign--
I am the only God of Wine!
It is not fit the wretch should be
In competition set with me,
Who can drink ten times more than he.
Make a new world, ye powers divine!
Stock’d with nothing else but Wine:
Let Wine its only product be,
Let Wine be earth, and air, and sea--
And let that Wine be all for me!
Cite this poem
MLA
Carey, Henry. “A Drinking-Song.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/carey/4/.
Chicago
Carey, Henry. “A Drinking-Song.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/carey/4/.
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