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Amber wine mellowed to milk - Harold Acton "Greenness Unsecreted"

Silken harlots, velvet wine - Harold Acton "The Prodigal Son"

Run with wine of daybreak - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

The Living Wine by Prophecy foretold - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. There is a vineyard planted by the Lord] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt

The secrets of a wine which warms the heart - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. They are not wisest who are conscious most] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt

Tuscan rhymes of love and wine and dance - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]

Drew blood to fill our cups of dream-dark wine - Mike Allen "Ascending"

Streets of wine and wandering - Maya Angelou "Lady Luncheon Club"

I'll never drink the proffer'd wine - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XXVII: Foolish Vow" transl. by Sir John Bowring

Dizzy with the wonder of that wine - Maurice Baring "Shelley"

Spilling a palette of wine - Lou Barrett "Double Portrait with Wineglass"

Grapes from stones, thirst into wine - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sacrament"

Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish - Charles Baudelaire "Be Drunk" transl. by Louis Simpson

Sang the soul of wine - Charles Baudelaire "The Soul of Wine" transl. not credited

Wit and wine and all delights - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"

Gallant where wines are poured - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

Gems and ivory, spices and wines and oil - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"

The clouds will shower our lips with wine - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Down in a mud of blood and dirt and wine - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"

Base wine from an ignoble cup - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"

And scattered in sweet wine - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"

Fear was a grape I crushed to wine - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"

Bearing her peace like a cup of blessed wine - Terry Blackhawk "A Peaceable Kingdom"

The mad wine of passion - Otto Leland Bohanan "Villanelle"

Drink wine in perfect accord - "The Book of Odes: No.220. When Guests First Take Their Seats" transl. by Burton Watson

Unto the wine-filled rose - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 26"

With wine of sweet companionship - Eloise Briton "The Two Flames"

Prepare the feast and pearl the wine - Richard Bruce "Cavalier" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Burns like wine the open wound - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"

That spills its amber wine - F. O. Call "Wild Grape"

Glowed within the wines we drank - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall

The wine that heals the summer's wounds - Paul Carroll "Fragments from an Abandoned Ode"

Air kisses the wine - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Brown Estate, 2018 Tempranillo"

Whom the new wine of war sent wild - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"

Imbreathed draughts of wine - Arthur Hugh Clough "Χρυσέα κλῄς ἐπὶ γλώσσᾳ."

Journey over cups of wine - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."

Snatch a skull for midnight wine - Leonard Cohen "It Uses Us!"

The cups of red wine turned pale - Mary Coleridge "Unwelcome"

Pledge me a cup of golden wine - Mary Coleridge "Wither Away?"

With a surplus of cranberry wine - Dorsey Craft "The women my husband ought to love"

Wrung the wine of the dream - Adelaide Crapsey "The Mother Exultant"

Maenads maddened by the wine - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Prayer"

Sweet cakes and honey and wine - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

As sunlight melts in wine - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"

The hemlock which you give for wine - Countee Cullen "Harsh World That Lashest Me"

his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine - E. E. Cummings "Songs (VII)"

And Assyrian wine to shatter her fever - H.D. "Acon"

Scant wine from grapes of pain - T.A. Daly "To a Thrush"

Blood, wine, and glee - "The Dance of the Sword" (Translated by Tom Taylor)

Who friendship seal in wine - Sir William Davenant "The Dying Lover"

The stain of rich red wine - Eugene A. Davidson "The Swift and Sharp-tongued Flame of Death"

Whether the goal is glass or wine - Diana Marie Delgado "Horses on the Radio"

Bring an unaccustomed wine - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life II"

And touched the curious wine - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life L: Hunger"

My words will be your only wine - Thomas M. Disch "Ballade of the New God"

The roses and ruby wine rival each other - Mary B. Dodge "Overdue" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]

Translucent globes of ruby wine - Julia C.R. Dorr "Vashti's Scroll"

Laugh across the wine - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"

Our wine is death - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"

Cabarets and songs, and deadening wine - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Sonnet [I had no thought of violets of late]" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

After a wine-deepened dinner - Stephen Dunn "The Unsaid"

When magic wine for bards is brewed - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Poets praise that hidden wine - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

That poured the wine of fear - Donald Evans "Loving Kindness"

This chaotic age's wine - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"

Ruby lights and devil's wine - George Blackstone Field "The Bonnets"

And twine around the year's fermenting wine - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"

Pour the fragrant oil and wine - Effie Fitzgerald "The Babes of Exile"

Scandal over full wine cups - John Gould Fletcher "A Night Festival"

Break them the bread of love and pour the wine - James W. Foley "A Christmas Prayer"

Blush 'neath the sunset like rosy wine - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]

Where there are rivers of wine - Colin Francis "Tony O"

Behind it was a well of wine - "From the Vision of Mac Conglinne" transl. by Kuno Meyer

With nuts and fragrant wine - Rose Fyleman "Trees and Fairies"

Wine and fruit in fragrant dress - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

Night and day in some wild wine - Zona Gale "The Secret Way"

My feet mashing grapes for wine - Roberto Carlos Garcia "This Moment/Right Now"

You drank me like wine - Louis Golding "Cold Branch in the Black Air"

Expects some day to ripen its little drops of wine - "Great Expectations" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

That drains with one deep draught the wine of life - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Fountains brimming with wine - Louise Imogen Guiney "Saint Cadoc's Bell"

This water will not become wine - Christian Gullette "Coachella Elegy"

And pledged them well in wine - Ivor Gurney "Toasts and Memories"

Bring wine that has the ruby's blaze - Hafiz "The Divan VIII" (translated by H. Bicknell)

Come with offerings of wine and fruit - Han-Shan "[Have I a body or have I none?]" transl. by Burton Watson

Regret's ambrosial wine - Bret Harte "The Personified Sentimental"

And lifted as with wine - F.W. Harvey "Autumn in Prison"

Wines of mirth and friendship - F.W. Harvey "A Christmas Wish"

Breathe the thrilling reeds for wine - Robert Stephen Hawker "King Arthur's Waes-Hael"

Lamp swollen with wine and blood - Anne Hebert "The Tomb of Kings" transl. by Kathleen Weaver

Sips the tulip's chaliced wine - Sarah D. Hobart "Elusive" [Lippincott's Magazine, Oct. 1885]

Whose wine was life to me - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

Full of winy perfume and mystical yearning - William D. Howells "Clement"

Lent heaven's own fire to generous wine - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

The mingled wine and brine - "Indifference"

Thy gods are making wine - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: A Raven in a White Chine"

We pour strange wines and purples all - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

This sweat of slaves is no good wine - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

All the jewels warm as wine - Emily Pauline Johnson "The King's Consort"

Denied the wines of life - Emily Pauline Johnson "Workworn"

And rest content in wine and nectar - Fenton Johnson "The Marathon Runner"

Drunk with the wine of the world - James Weldon Johnson "Lift Every Voice and Sing"

From thy lips the honeyed wine - James Weldon Johnson "The Passionate Lover"

The bananas flow like wine - Nicholas Johnson "One of the Monkeys"

And who has oil and wine enough? - Annie Fellows Johnston "It Was the Road to Jericho"

A drop more wine than you can carry home - "Jolly Father Joe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]

Nursing a bottle of strawberry wine - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"

No wine to fire the captive heart - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Found its waves were wine - Fanny Kemble "Impromptu"

And Lilith roses dipped in wine - Joyce Kilmer "Ballade of My Lady's Beauty"

With ashen bread and wine of tears - Joyce Kilmer "The Fourth Shepherd"

And sprinkles sunfilled wine - Joyce Kilmer "Summer of Love"

Wine more bitter than the taste of gall - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Not the idea of wine - Michael Lauchlan "Cana Dance"

Down the tendrilled avenues of wine - D.H. Lawrence "Grapes"

Green wine held up in the sun - D.H. Lawrence "Green"

Tasting of acid flame and apple wine - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"

Excited by themes that are born of the wine - Henry S. Leigh "Anticipations"

These azure veins could boast the regal wine - Henry S. Leigh "To a Timid Leech"

The regal wine of Tudors or Plantagenets - Henry S. Leigh "To a Timid Leech"

With black wine and black bread - Philip Levine "Yakov"

Traded the golden tortoise for wine - Li Po "Facing Wine with Memories of Lord Ho" transl. by Burton Watson

Paid ten thousand coins for wine - Li Po "Let Us Drink Wine" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Let us pour the old wine into our two cups - Li Po "We Will Grow Old Together" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Wine loosens sadness from the heart - Li Po "Why Be Jealous?" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

When I grow sober after all this wine - Li Yung "Parting in Autumn" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Red like the wine of your heart - Amy Lowell "Crowned"

Like red wine and honey - Amy Lowell "A Decade"

Such wine as Dante poured - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

Sunshine strained through amber wine - James Russell Lowell "The Protest"

My cup of wine for comfort - Lu Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson

Uncork a bottle of that curious wine - Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe "The Lay of the Sheriff"

More than all my currant wine - Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe "The Lay of the Sheriff"

Wine mixing with cherry blossoms and inkstone - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

Drunk with old wine of love - Fiona MacLeod "The Songs of Ethlenn Stuart"

Sipping moonshine and and sweet sable wine - Mack W. Mani "Sanctuary"

What oil full of wine - Joyce Mansour "Embrace the Blade" transl. by Carol Cosman

Purposes dissolved in wine - Don Marquis "The Parting"

And drink dream-deep life's heady wine - Don Marquis "Proem"

Tasters of humble human wines - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)

Upon my mouth do crush their wine - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"

Songs like old mulled wine - John Masefield "The Golden City of St. Mary"

With the strong red wine of His mirth - John Masefield "Laugh and Be Merry"

Sweet and cold as the wine of apples - Edgar Lee Masters "Johnny Appleseed"

Electrified by wine and music - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"

The air as comforting as wine - Theodore Maynard "At Yelverton"

A mouse drunk on plum wine - Michael McGriff "Inversion"

Golden moment rare like wine - Claude McKay "The City's Love"

That filled my soul like cooling wine - Claude McKay "Memorial"

Drink its foamy dust like sparkling wine - Claude McKay "My House" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

An old wine has intoxicated me - Claude McKay "On a Primitive Canoe"

Which poisoned our illicit wine - Claude McKay "One Year After"

Wild days of wine and wit - Louis J. McQuilland "A Georgian Snuff-Box"

Life's wine audacious - Louis J. McQuilland "The House of the Strange Woman"

For rapture of a wine of tears - George Meredith "Night of Frost in May"

A smell of woodland wine - George Meredith "Outer and Inner"

Fire in water hued as wine - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Cling to the warm couch of wine - Arthur Milliken "Chopin"

Dictators of the wine harvest - Pablo Neruda "The Bordellos" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The errant wine and the implacable bread - Pablo Neruda "Brother Bartolome de Las Casas" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The flash of wine in daggers - Pablo Neruda "Death" transl. by Jack Schmitt

We swallow the memory of wine and beer - Pablo Neruda "Men XI" transl. by William O'Daly

To set down the wine's scripture - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly

Unleashing wine and snow - Pablo Neruda "With Quevedo, In Springtime" transl. by William O'Daly

Drink the pure wine of language - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid

At a wedding overflowing with sweet wine - Mari Ness "Sisters"

Too much wine and flattery - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

And have new life in autumn's wine - Meredith Nicholson "Grape Bloom"

Dew that burns like wine - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

Prepare the feast and pearl the wine - Bruce Nugent "Cavalier"

Like wine to my spirit - James Oppenheim "Self"

Who set rich wine upon the lees - Gilbert Parker "Their Waving Hands"

To pour wine to the Unknown God - Josephine Preston Peabody "Noon at Paestum"

And our ballast is old wine - Thomas Love Peacock "The Men of Gotham"

Once with fish and once with wine - D.A. Powell "The Miracle of Giving"

Strong wine to strengthen me for my task - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]

Pouring his stream of burning wine - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Road to Colla"

Thrills with sap of sun-born wine - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To Italy"

With life like beaded wine - Theodore H. Rand "At Minas Basin"

The wine of shoreless oceans - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"

The song of wine and wonder - Herbert Randall "Hymn Ancestral"

And the top-sail dripping wine - Herbert Randall "Off"

Among her future oil and wines - T. Buchanan Read "Drifting"

What wine of coal-damp He will pour - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"

Drinking fouled water and sour wines - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"

A bitter wine out of the bloody stills of the world - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Our wine is rich for a thousand cups - Rihaku "The River Song" transl. by Ezra Pound

Like a rill of wasted wine - James Whitcombe Riley "Dreamer, Say"

Were all wines kept flowing - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

The wine of uncharted days - Alberto Rios "We Dogs of a Thursday Off"

With three years' dust above the mellow wine - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"

No epic wine is this - Alice Wellington Rollins "To the Critic"

Drink a cup of wine in this ruined house - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton

Unslaked by any wine save life - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"

Gave you a mug of warm wine - Richard Scott "dem bones"

And press the rue for wine - Sir Walter Scott "A Weary Lot Is Thine"

In the moving depths of yellow wine - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Love"

into viscous fossil wine - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"

The wine of eternal ambiguities - Charles Simic "Makers of Labyrinths"

Till being's wine is low - Clark Ashton Smith "Lethe"

The sad tear may embitter the wine - R. Penn Smith "A Health to My Brother"

Thou takest to thee strange wine - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"

Red and gold of sunset wines - George Sterling "The Pathway"

Whoso drinks her beauty's golden wine - George Sterling "That Walk in Darkness"

The power of your deluding wine - George Sterling "To Life"

One with the wine of night - George Sterling "With the Strength of Dreams"

The sigh of remembered names, the wine of remembered youth - Arthur Stringer "Letters from Home"

Brims not with Borgia's wine - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"

Where the wine's heart has burst - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Before Parting"

Wine and bread without lees or leaven - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Mixed into me as honey in wine - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Whose lips have drunken the wine of tears - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

The music burning at heart like wine - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Pour out my spring wine - T'ao Ch'ien [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)

Pound grain to make good wine - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Matching a Poem by Secretary Kuo, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson

Fondling the milky spring wine - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Motionless Clouds" transl. by Burton Watson

The bright wine of immortality - Sara Teasdale "The Wine"

Half-filled with wine from the cliffs - Paul Tran "Terroir"

As I spill the ancient wine - Iris Tree "Flame"

The soft wine turned to bloom - Herbert Trench "Musing on a Great Soldier"

Drink from this cup of summer wine - Tu Fu "The Poet Dreams" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Knock and enter and be fed with fire and wine - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"

Behind it was a well of wine - "The Vision of Mac Conglinne"

To drink the wine of astonishment - Ellen Bryant Voigt "Kyrie" (p.27)

We'd drink the years like wine - Helen Hay Whitney "How we would Live!"

Drink the lees of bitter wine - Helen Hay Whitney "The Philosopher"

Pour out my life as wine - Helen Hay Whitney "To a Woman"

The breath of vineyards, of apples and nuts and wine - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

The wine of consolation pressed from sorrows - John Greenleaf Whittier "A Legacy"

For blood and wine are red - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

'Twas others dranke the wine - George Wither "A Love Song"

After a long night of laughter and wine - Dean Young "The Infirmament"

Who spilled the strong-willed wine - Dean Young "Spring Reign"

Of wine with bitter hemlock steep'd - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

The wine of autumn rain intoxicates them - Zheng Min "The Gift of Life #5" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

Drank their fill of the wine of forgetfulness - Zheng Min "Heavy Lyrics #4: Looking into the Distance" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


Haunting the byways of wine-aired leaven - Anne Spencer "Life-Long, Poor Browning..." [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]


Clasps his hands in the wine-chill air - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"


To beware of the wine-cup's demon lure - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"


bring me wineglasses of miracles - Michael Leong "For My Cats Gaspara & Alfonsina"

Like a wineglass of hatred - Pablo Neruda "Letter to Miguel Otero Silva, in Caracas (1949)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The wineglass of hereafter - Pablo Neruda "Love Song" transl. by William O'Daly


The wine-press of the Wrath of God - Rudyard Kipling "The Vineyard"


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