10 Best Famous Toasts Poems

Here is a collection of the top 10 all-time best famous Toasts poems. This is a select list of the best famous Toasts poetry. Reading, writing, and enjoying famous Toasts poetry (as well as classical and contemporary poems) is a great past time. These top poems are the best examples of toasts poems.

• All Famous Toasts Poems

Outside the sky is light with stars; 
There's a hollow roaring from the sea. 
And, alas! for the little almond flowers, 
The wind is shaking the almond tree. 

How little I thought, a year ago, 
In the horrible cottage upon the Lee 
That he and I should be sitting so 
And sipping a cup of camomile tea. 

Light as feathers the witches fly, 
The horn of the moon is plain to see; 
By a firefly under a jonquil flower 
A goblin toasts a bumble-bee. 

We might be fifty, we might be five, 
So snug, so compact, so wise are we! 
Under the kitchen-table leg 
My knee is pressing against his knee. 

Our shutters are shut, the fire is low, 
The tap is dripping peacefully; 
The saucepan shadows on the wall 
Are black and round and plain to see. 

 Vulcan, contrive me such a cup
As Nestor used of old;
Show all thy skill to trim it up,
Damask it round with gold.

Make it so large that, filled with sack
Up to the swelling brim,
Vast toasts on the delicious lake
Like ships at sea may swim.

Engrave not battle on its cheek:
With war I've nought to do;
I'm none of those that took Maastricht,
Nor Yarmouth leaguer knew.

Let it no name of planets tell,
Fixed stars, or constellations;
For I am no Sir Sidrophel,
Nor none of his relations.

But carve theron a spreading vine,
Then add two lovely boys;
Their limbs in amorous folds intwine,
The type of future joys.

Cupid and Bacchus my saints are,
May drink and love still reign,
With wine I wash away my cares,
And then to **** again.

 Oh, banquet not in those shining bowers, 
Where Youth resorts, but come to me, 
For mine's a garden of faded flowers, 
More fit for sorrow, for age, and thee. 
And there we shall have our feast of tears, 
And many a cup in silence pour; 
Our guests, the shades of former years, 
Our toasts, to lips that bloom no more. 

There, while the myrtle's withering boughs 
Their lifeless leaves around us shed, 
We'll brim the bowl to broken vows 
To friends long lost, the changed, the dead. 
Or, while some blighted laurel waves 
Its branches o'er the dreary spot, 
We'll drink to those neglected graves 
Where valour sleeps, unnamed, forgot.