799. Vine. James Thomson. The Oxford Book of English Verse

Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.

James Thomson. 1834–1882

799. The Vine

THE wine of Love is music,
And the feast of Love is song:
And when Love sits down to the banquet,
Love sits long:

Sits long and arises drunken,	5
But not with the feast and the wine;
He reeleth with his own heart,
That great, rich Vine.