Winter Evening

Name: Alkaios - Winter Evening
Author: Willis Barnstone

Zeus rumbles and a mammoth winter of snow

pours from the sky; agile rivers are ice.

Damn the winter cold! Pile up the burning logs

and water the great flagons of red wine;

place feather pillows by your head, and drink.

Let us not brood about hard times. Bakchos,

our solace is in you and your red wines:

our medicine of grape. Drink deeply, drink.

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Chicago: Willis Barnstone, "Winter Evening," Alkaios Original Sources, accessed July 2, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CQ667BAMCT73LPD.

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