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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A BANQUET, by ERNEST BENSHIMOL First Line: After the song the love, and after the love the play Last Line: But water at morning is quench for the thirsting! Subject(s): Feasts; Socrates (470-399 B.c.) | |||
After the song the love, and after the love the play, Flute girl and pretty boy blowing Bubbles of sparkling Wine into darkling Beards of a former austerity, stern even now, but fast growing Foolish, with less of the stately Reserve that held them sedately. Oh Zeus, what a sight! with the wine dripping off it, The grin of an ass on a bald-pated prophet. After the feast the night, and after the night the day, Fool and philosopher stirring With the day dawning, Stretching and yawning, While in each wine-throbbing, desolate brain is the wheeling and whirring Of thousands of bats, that the slaking Of throats will not hinder from aching, No wine for the brow that is beating to bursting, But water at morning is quench for the thirsting! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FLUTE OVERHEARD by KENNETH REXROTH THE CLOUDS: SOCRATES' EXPERIMENTS by ARISTOPHANES SATIRE: 4 by AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS THE REPLY OF SOCRATES, CONCERNING THE WRITINGS OF HERACLITUS by JOHN BYROM THE PRISONER by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: SATIRE: 4 by JOSEPH HALL THE CROWN OF THORNS by JESSE WILLIS JEFFERIS THE WANDERER by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) THE DEATH OF SOCRATES by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS SONNET OF LIFE by ERNEST BENSHIMOL |
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