Wine and Poetry

Drinking: 2009 Seghesio Old Vine Carignane

Reading: Give Me Women, Wine, and Snuff

GIVE me women, wine, and snuff
Untill I cry out "hold, enough!"
You may do so sans objection
Till the day of resurrection:
For, bless my beard, they aye shall be
My beloved Trinity.

-John Keats

I have always thought that wine is bottled poetry. It is an art form ever changing. I am a fan of poetry and would like to start including some of my favorite poems on this blog. Poetry is meant to be read with passion as wine is to be made with passion.

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.

-- "A Drinking Song" by William Butler Yeats

I hid the love within my heart, And lit the laughter in my eyes, That when we meet he may not know My love that never dies. But sometimes when he dreams at night Of fragrant forests green and dim, It may be that my love crept out And brought the dream to him. And sometimes when his heart is sick And suddenly grows well again, It may be that my love was there To free his life of pain. -- "Hidden Love" by Sara Teasdale