<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=338732" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Anacreontics, The Epicure</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">UNDERNEATH this myrtle shade, <br>On flowerly beds supinely laid, <br>With odorous oils my head o'erflowing, <br>And around it roses growing, <br>What should I do but drink away <br>The heat and troubles of the day? <br>In this more than kingly state <br>Love himself on me shall wait. <br>Fill to me, Love! nay, fill it up! <br>And mingled cast into the cup <br>Wit and mirth and noble fires, <br>Vigorous health and gay desires. <br>The wheel of life no less will stay <br>In a smooth than rugged way: <br>Since it equally doth flee, <br>Let the motion pleasant be. <br>Why do we precious ointments shower?-- <br>Nobler wines why do we pour?-- <br>Beauteous flowers why do we spread <br>Upon the monuments of the dead? <br>Nothing they but dust can show, <br>Or bones that hasten to be so. <br>Crown me with roses while I live, <br>Now your wines and ointments give: <br>After death I nothing crave, <br>Let me alive my pleasures have: <br>All are Stoics in the grave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Abraham+Cowley">Abraham Cowley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=338732" data-title="Anacreontics, The Epicure de Abraham Cowley" data-description="UNDERNEATH this myrtle shade, On flowerly beds supinely laid, With odorous oils my head o'erflowing, And around it roses growing, What should I do but drink away The heat and troubles of the day? In this more than kingly state Love himself ..."></div> </div> </div>

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