Living
The Jar
From An American Anthology, 1787–1900, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
Living
Day and night my thoughts incline
To the blandishments of wine:
Jars were made to drain, I think,
Wine, I know, was made to drink.
When I die, (the day be far!)
Should the potters make a jar
Out of this poor clay of mine,
Let the jar be filled with wine!
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Stoddard, Richard Henry. “The Jar.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stoddard/29/.
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Stoddard, Richard Henry. “The Jar.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stoddard/29/.
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