Hip Hops. Poems about Beer

Foreword
Illustration: WILLIAM HOGARTH Beer Street
HOPS OF CIVILIZATION (WITH RECIPES)
ANONYMOUS From Hymn to Ninkasi, Goddess
of Beer
SYLVIA PLATH "The beer tastes good ..."
ANONYMOUS The Origin of Beer
TED KOOSER Beer Bottle
BERTOLT BRECHT Little Song
JOHN SKELTON From The tunnyng of Elynour
Rummyng
FRANK DE CANIO Naming of Hops
DAVID FERRY From Gilgamesh
LI BAI Bring in the ale
JUNE JORDAN Poem at the Midnight of My Life
ROBERT BURNS John Barleycorn: A Ballad
CAROL ANN DUFFY John Barleycorn
CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY From Beer
EDWARD LEAR From A Book of Nonsense
ZOSIMOS THE ALCHEMIST Found Beer Poem
MARIA J. MOSS Beer or Ale
LES MURRAY Beer
BUT THE ALE-HOUSE IS HEALTHY & PLEASANT & WARM
ROBERT HERRICK The Cobblers' Catch
GARY SNYDER I Went into the Maverick Bar
RUMI Who Says Words with My Mouth?
HENRY LAWSON The Glass on the Bar
ALICIA OSTRIKER Beer
BOB HOLMAN @ the Cafe
JAMES STEPHENS A Glass of Beer after
DAVID O'BRUADAIR
WESLEY WILSON Gimme a Pigfoot (and a Bottle
of Beer)
WILLIAM SHENSTONE Written at an Inn
at Henley
DU FU The arrival of a guest
EDGAR FAWCETT Pipes and Beer
WILLIAM BLAKE The Little Vagabond
ANONYMOUS "Who has good malt and makes
poor drink"
HILAIRE BELLOC West Sussex Drinking Song
G. к. CHESTERTON A Ballade of an
Anti-Puritan
RUDY TOOMBS One Bourbon, One Scotch,
One Beer
JOHN KEATS Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
JAMES SMITH Beer Shops
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON "Three students once
tarried ..after LUDWIG UHLAND
ARTHUR RIMBAUD Romance
AMY CLAMPITT A Cure at Porlock
BERTOLT BRECHT "Joyously to eat of meat
JOHN BETJEMAN The Village Inn
ERIC IDLE Bruce's Philosophers Song
ROBERT GERNHARDT Thesis - Antithesis -
Synthesis
CARL SANDBURG Honky Tonk in Cleveland,
Ohio
ALAN DUGAN Swing Shift Blues
ROBERT BURNS Epitaph on John Dove,
Innkeeper, Mauchline
SMALL BEER, EMPTY BOTTLE
ERNESTO CARDENAL Like Empty Beer Cans
GUNTER EICH Smoke Beer
DONNA MASINI Elegy for a Church-Key
CHRISTOPH KELLER Beer Drinkers
KIMIKO HAHN Things that Remind Me of Beer
or that Beer Reminds Me of
GEORGE ARNOLD Beer
WILLIAM AYTOUN The Empty Bottle
ISABELLA LICKBARROW The Disappointment
HENRY LAWSON The Foreign Drunk
EMILY DICKINSON "I taste a liquor never
brewed -"
JAN HELLER LEVI Next to Last Call
LANGSTON HUGHES Down and Out
ETHEL LYNN BEERS Picking Hops
EDITH NESBIT Hop Picking
IVAN DONN CARSWELL The Beer Was Cold
Enough
FLANN O'BRIEN The Workman's Friend
HANK WILLIAMS There's a Tear in My Beer
SAMMY EDWARDS No Beer, No Work
ELLIS PARKER BUTLER No Beer, No Work
SARAH VAN ARSDALE Good Game
ROBERT w. SERVICE It Is Later Than
You Think .. ..
w. в. YEATS A Drunken Man's Praise
of Sobriety
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Be Drunk
BEER FOR BREAKFAST
(THE HANGOVER SECTION)
JANE HIRSHFIELD This Was Once a Love Poem
FRANK O'HARA Beer for Breakfast
FLORIAN VETSCH Beer Poem
том WAITS Warm Beer and Cold Women
JAMES STEPHENS The Market
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX "Ph. Best & Co.'s
Lager-Beer"
ANONYMOUS Prohibition Beer Poem
ALISON ROGERS NAPOLEON Having a Beer with
the Moon
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Heather Ale
A. E. HOUSMAN From A Shropshire Lad
DIANE WAKOSKI Sestina to the Common Glass
of Beer: I Do Not Drink Beer
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Beer
MURIEL RUKEYSER Beer and Bacon
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Lager Beer
JOSEPH HODGSON Blackburn Election
JUNE JORDAN Roman Poem Number Eight
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Faithful Eckart
w. в. YEATS The Hour Before Dawn
ANONYMOUS Old Irish Tale
JOHN CLARE Billings Sorrows in Being Sober for
Want of Money to Get Drunk
ANONYMOUS Epitaph in Churchyard at
Winchester, England, 1764
PROOF OF GOD
(AND ONE LAST ONE FOR THE ROAD)
ROBERT HERRICK The Tinkers Song
ROBERT BURNS To Mr. Syme with a Present of a
Dozen of Porter
том MARIONI Beer Drinking Sonata
(for 13 Players)
ROBERT GRAVES Strong Beer
EDGAR ALLAN РОЕ Lines on Ale
BON GAULTIER (w. E. AYTOUN & THEODORE
MARTIN) Jupiter and the Indian Ale ..
CHRISTOPH KELLER Let's Talk IPA
ANONYMOUS Stanzas to Pale Ale
SAMUEL JOHNSON Hermit Hoar, in Solemn Cell
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The Antediluvians Were
All Very Sober
JOHN GAY Ballad on Ale
JASON BAKER Walter's Bar, New Year's Eve
ANONYMOUS From The Garrick Collection
LEW BROWN & WLADIMIR A. TIMM Beer Barrel
Polka (Roll Out the Barrel)
SEPTIMUS WINNER Lilliputian's Beer Song
ANONYMOUS Beer, Boys, Beer
FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS Beer
ROBERT GERNHARDT Our Tufted Deer
ANONYMOUS Beers, with Apologies to
Joyce Kilmer
"BARCLAY PERKINS" I Likes a Drop of Good Beer, I
Does
ANONYMOUS, popularly misattributed to "HOMER
SIMPSON" D'oh, Re, Me
LANGSTON HUGHES Hey-Hey Blues
WILLIAM MATTHEWS Another Beer
ELIAS LONNROT From The Kalevala:
The Brewing of Beer
Index of Authors
Acknowledgments