The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #17311   Message #167894
Posted By: Amos
24-Jan-00 - 11:17 PM
Thread Name: poet songs
Subject: RE: poet songs
I believe that Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes was originally a poem (Jonson??) but it became a parlor-piano hit some where in the Gay Nineties, if I am not mistaken. But then again, I often is.

A.

Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine.
Or leave a kiss within the cup,
And I'll not ask for wine.
The thirst that from the heart doth flow
Doth ask a drink divine;
But might I of Job's nectar sip
I would not trade for thine.

...sniff....gulp... still gets me choked up after all these centuries...