Some Short Extracts From Poems About Drinking.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
Treasure Island. 1883.
Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the Devil had done for the rest-
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum.
Henry Aldrich. Reasons For Drinking. 1689.
If all be true that I do think
There are 5 good reasons we should drink
Good wine – a friend – or being dry –
Or lest we should be by and by –
Or any other reason why.
Alexander Pope.
The Dunciad.
1742.
Flow Welsted, flow! Like thine inspirer,
Beer,
Tho’ stale, not ripe; tho’ thin, yet never clear;
So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly dull;
Heady, not strong; o’erflowing tho’ not full.
Goerge Crabbe. Inebriety. 1775.
Lo! The poor toper whose untutored sense,
Sees bliss in ale, and can wine dispense;
Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer,
Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.