I taste a liquor never brewed
April 28, 2009
so i was listening to “A Liquor Never Brewed” by Mischief Brew (i just got into them) and I found out that it’s based off an Emily Dickinson poem. the poem is tittled “I taste a liquor never brewed.”
not sure if you know this or not but emily dickinson didn’t title her poems so most of her poems are titled after the first line in the poem.
“I taste a liquor never brewed,
From tankards scooped in pearl;
Not all the vats upon the Rhine
Yield such an alcohol!
Inebriate of air am I,
And debauchee of dew,
Reeling, through endless summer days,
From inns of molten blue.
When landlords turn the drunken bee
Out of the foxglove’s door,
When butterflies renounce their drams,
I shall but drink the more!
Till seraphs swing their snowy hats,
And saints to windows run,
To see the little tippler
Leaning against the sun!”
it’s a great song, but the poem is just magnificent. reminds me of how i should read more poetry and all the great litrature thats out there.
