A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety

Poem by William Butler Yeats

"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.

External links

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W. B. Yeats

Poetry

Volumes	The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889) The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892) In the Seven Woods (1903) Responsibilities and Other Poems (1916) The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) The Tower (1928) The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
Poems	"The Song of Wandering Aengus" "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" "Adam's Curse" "Blood and the Moon" "The Circus Animals' Desertion" "Down by the Salley Gardens" "A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety" "Easter, 1916" "Ego Dominus Tuus" "In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz" "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen" "On being asked for a War Poem" "Politics" "A Prayer for My Daughter" "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" "The Rose of Battle" "The Rose-Tree" "Sailing to Byzantium" "September 1913" "Song of the Old Mother" "The Fiddler of Dooney" "The Gift of Harun Al-Raschid" "The Scholars" "The Second Coming" "The Song of the Happy Shepherd" "The Stolen Child" "Swift's Epitaph" "To the Rose upon the Rood of Time" "The Tower" "Under Ben Bulben "The Wanderings of Oisin" "The Wild Swans at Coole"

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