“For some we loved, the loveliest and the best
That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest,
Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before,
And one by one crept silently to rest.”
Source: The Rubaiyat (1120)
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A short Schem of the true Religion
in [1, John, 4:12, KJV]
First Letter of John
The last Leaf; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
1827 journal entry reproduced in Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995), p. 82
“He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”
“My true love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange, one for the other given.”
"My true love hath my heart, and I have his".
“O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth.”
Stanza 2
Poems (1820), Ode to a Nightingale
Context: O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth.
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South,
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth.
First lines of the published version, in the Atlantic Monthly (February 1862); Howe stated that the title “Battle Hymn of the Republic” was devised by the Atlantic editor James T. Fields.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
He is trampling out the wine press, where the grapes of wrath are stored,
He hath loosed the fateful lightnings of his terrible swift sword,
His truth is marching on.
First lines of the first manuscript version (19 November 1861).
The Battle Hymn of the Republic (1861)