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,

What lively lad most pleasured me
Of all that with me lay?
I answer that I gave my soul
And loved in misery,
But had great pleasure with a lad

I LIVED among great houses,
Riches drove out rank,
Base drove out the better blood,
And mind and body shrank.
No Oscar ruled the table,

Come let us mock at the great
That had such burdens on the mind
And toiled so hard and late
To leave some monument behind,
Nor thought of the levelling wind.

HE stood among a crowd at Dromaha
His heart hung all upon a silken d
And he had known at last some tend
Before earth took him to her stony
But when a man poured fish into a

ONCE, when midnight smote the ai
Eunuchs ran through Hell and met
On every crowded street to stare
Upon great Juan riding by:
Even like these to rail and sweat

I HAVE drunk ale from the Count
And weep because I know all thing
I have been a hazel-tree, and they
The Pilot Star and the Crooked P
Among my leaves in times out of mi

AND thus declared that Arab lady
‘Last night, where under the wild
On grassy mattress I had laid me,
Within my arms great Solomon,
I suddenly cried out in a strange

MAY God be praised for woman
That gives up all her mind,
A man may find in no man
A friendship of her kind
That covers all he has brought

We who are old, old and gay,
O so old!
Thousands of years, thousands of y
If all were told:
Give to these children, new from t