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

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.

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