Anacreontics The Epicure

UNDERNEATH this myrtle shade,

On flowerly beds supinely laid,

With odorous oils my head o’erflowing,

And around it roses growing,

What should I do but drink away

The heat and troubles of the day?

In this more than kingly state

Love himself on me shall wait.

Fill to me, Love! nay, fill it up!

And mingled cast into the cup

Wit and mirth and noble fires,

Vigorous health and gay desires.

The wheel of life no less will stay

In a smooth than rugged way:

Since it equally doth flee,

Let the motion pleasant be.

Why do we precious ointments shower?-

Nobler wines why do we pour?-

Beauteous flowers why do we spread

Upon the monuments of the dead?

Nothing they but dust can show,

Or bones that hasten to be so.

Crown me with roses while I live,

Now your wines and ointments give:

After death I nothing crave,

Let me alive my pleasures have:

All are Stoics in the grave.

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Poems in English 

• The Heart That Is Pining by Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English
• The Clime Of My Birth by Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English
• The Bird Has Vanished by Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English
• Solitude at an Inn by Thomas Warton by Poetry In English
• Ribbons & Pearls by Timothy Cole by Poetry In English
• Refrigerator, 1957 by Thomas Lux by Poetry In English
• Timothy Thomas Fortune – Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English
• Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City by Thomas Lux by Poetry In English
• On King Arthur’s Round Table at Winchester by Thomas Warton by Poetry In English
• Ode To Sleep by Thomas Warton by Poetry In English
• My Precious Girl by Tiffany Ann Monroe by Poetry In English
• My Miracle Valentine by Tirtha Raj Baral (Sanu Punatare) by Poetry In English
• Mother Earth; Her Beauty And Her Destruction by TMBedell by Poetry In English
• Motel Seedy by Thomas Lux by Poetry In English
• Marine Snow At Mid-Depths And Down by Thomas Lux by Poetry In English
• Lucky by Thomas Lux by Poetry In English
• Love’s Divinest Power by Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English
• Love of the heart by Timileyin Gabriel Olajuwon by Poetry In English
• Just A Dance by Tiffany M by Poetry In English
• Thomas Lux – Thomas Lux by Poetry In English

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