Love
A Drinking Song
From The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1912)
LoveLiving
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.
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Codex Note
Six lines that set wine and love side by side as the only truths a man will know before he dies: 'Wine comes in at the mouth / And love comes in at the eye'.
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MLA
Yeats, W. B. “A Drinking Song.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/27/.
Chicago
Yeats, W. B. “A Drinking Song.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/27/.
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