My contribution to Poetry Friday today comes at the end of Atticus's first week back at school. He started back to work on Monday, and students arrived on Wednesday.We miss him already, and this poem makes me think about settling in with him tonight and chatting about our week.
A Drinking Song
by William Butler Yeats
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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7 comments:
I love that poem -- and it's so evocative of motherhood somehow, even though I'm sure that's not what Yeats was on about!
Great poem, Karen!
Boy school starts early in your neck of the woods. The kids around here have another week plus of summer vacation, and even that is starting earlier than we did when we were kids. I hope they get out earlier in the spring as well.
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
Oh, that is so sweet.
This neck of the woods, the kids also went back to school on Wednesday. And so it begins for another year.
I hope your husband's first week back was enjoyable - have a great weekend together.
Very cool poem.
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