StoryTitle("caps", "Anacreontics I: Drinking") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And drinks and gapes for drink again; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The plants suck in the earth, and are ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With constant drinking fresh and fair; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sea itself (which one would think ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Should have but little need of drink) ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Drinks twice ten thousand rivers up, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So fill'd that they o'erflow the cup. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The busy Sun (and one would guess ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By's drunken fiery face no less) ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Drinks up the sea, and when he's done, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Moon and Stars drink up the Sun: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They drink and dance by their own light, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They drink and revel all the night: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nothing in Nature's sober found, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But an eternal health goes round. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fill up the bowl, then, fill it high, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fill all the glasses there—for why ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Should every creature drink but I? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Why, man of morals, tell me why?", "") ?>
Poet("Abraham Cowley", "1618–1667") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>