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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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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 against a primary source]
- by Brian Boydell (1917 - 2000), "Drinking song", 1965 [soprano and Irish harp], from Three Yeats Songs [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Brian Boydell (1917 - 2000), "Drinking song", 1966 [soprano and orchestra], from Four Yeats Poems [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- 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", 1962 [voice and piano], from Six Irish Songs [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Donald Howard Keats (b. 1929), "A drinking song", published 1965. [four-part men's chorus a cappella] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930), "Wine comes in at the mouth", 1920-2. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- 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 against a primary source]
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
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-03
Line count: 6
Word count: 40
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"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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- a text in English by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "A drinking song", appears in The Green Helmet and Other Poems, first published 1910
This text was added to the website: 2016-12-09
Line count: 6
Word count: 31