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by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Translation © by Gabriel Rosenstock

Wine comes in at the mouth
Language: English 
Our translations:  FRE IRI
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.

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Text Authorship:

  • by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "A drinking song", appears in The Green Helmet and Other Poems, first published 1910 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Seóirse Bodley (b. 1933), "A drinking song", c1953 [ baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Brian Boydell (1917 - 2000), "Drinking song", 1965 [ soprano and Irish harp ], from Three Yeats Songs [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Brian Boydell (1917 - 2000), "Drinking song", 1966 [ soprano and orchestra ], from Four Yeats Poems [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Joseph Eidson , "A drinking song", 2013 [ soprano (or tenor) and piano ], from Amhráin as an Linn Dubh. Songs From the Black Pool , no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Derek Healey (b. 1936), "A Drinking Song", op. 16 no. 6 (1962) [ voice and piano ], from Six Irish Songs, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Donald Howard Keats (b. 1929), "A drinking song", published 1965 [ four-part men's chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Kevin Puts (b. 1972), "Drinking Song" [ bass-baritone, flute, violin, cello, piano ], from In at the Eye, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930), "Wine comes in at the mouth", 1920-2 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Eugene John Weigel (1910 - 1998), "A drinking song", published 1950 [ SSA chorus a cappella ], from Four songs for women's voices [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-01-03
Line count: 6
Word count: 40

Sa bhéal isteach an fíon
Language: Irish (Gaelic)  after the English 
Sa bhéal isteach an fíon
Is sa tsúil isteach an grá;
Níl aon ní eile más fíor
A thuigfimid roimh ár mbás.
Ardaím an ghloine dom bhéal,
Féachaimse ort le hochlán.

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Translation of title "A drinking song" = "Amhrán óil"

Text Authorship:

  • Singable translation from English to Irish (Gaelic) copyright © 2016 by Gabriel Rosenstock.

    This author's work falls under the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Creative Commons license.


    Gabriel Rosenstock.  Contact: grosenstock04 (AT) gmail (DOT) com

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Based on:

  • a text in English by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "A drinking song", appears in The Green Helmet and Other Poems, first published 1910
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This text was added to the website: 2016-12-09
Line count: 6
Word count: 31

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