StoryTitle("caps", "Anacreontics II: The Epicure") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Underneath this myrtle shade, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On flowery beds supinely laid, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With odorous oils my head o'erflowing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And around it roses growing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What should I do but drink away ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The heat and troubles of the day? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In this more than kingly state ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love himself on me shall wait. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fill to me, Love! nay, fill it up! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And mingled cast into the cup ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wit and mirth and noble fires, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Vigorous health and gay desires. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The wheel of life no less will stay ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In a smooth than rugged way: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Since it equally doth flee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let the motion pleasant be. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Why do we precious ointments shower?— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nobler wines why do we pour?— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Beauteous flowers why do we spread ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upon the monuments of the dead? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nothing they but dust can show, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or bones that hasten to be so. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Crown me with roses while I live, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now your wines and ointments give: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "After death I nothing crave, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let me alive my pleasures have: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All are Stoics in the grave.", "") ?>
Poet("Abraham Cowley", "1618–1667") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>