A drinking song | Wine comes in at the mouth

by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)

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]

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

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