The Wine of Love
THE wine of Love is music,
   And the feast of Love is song:
And when Love sits down to the banquet,
   Love sits long:
Sits long and arises drunken,
   But not with the feast and the wine;
He reeleth with his own heart,
   That great, rich Vine.
Other works by James Thomson...
Stanzas Written by Thomson on the Blank Leaf of a Copy of His 'seasons’ Sent by Him to Mr. Lyttleton, Soon After the Death of His Wife
Go, little book, and find our Fri… Who Nature and the Muses loves, Who cares the public virtues blend With all the softness of the grove… A fitter time thou canst not choos…
