A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety

"A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety" is a poem written by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats,^[1] first published in his 1938 collection New Poems. The poem begins with the lines:

Come swish around, my pretty punk,
And keep me dancing still
That I may stay a sober man
Although I drink my fill.

Cultural influences

The poem is set to music by Elvis Costello and is featured in the bonus disc of the album Brutal Youth.

References

^ Greenlaw, Duncan (2001). "'Preying on Foresaid Remains': Irish Identity, Obituaries, and the Limits of Mourning". Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal. 34 (4): 123–144. ISSN 0027-1276. JSTOR 44029926.

External links

Works related to A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety at Wikisource
The collected public domain poetry of Yeats as an eBook at Standard Ebooks

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[1] Greenlaw, Duncan (2001). "'Preying on Foresaid Remains': Irish Identity, Obituaries, and the Limits of Mourning". Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal. 34 (4): 123–144. ISSN 0027-1276. JSTOR 44029926.

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