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Poem by Richard Brinsley Sheridan


Song


Here’s to the maiden of bashful fifteen;	
	Here’s to the widow of fifty; 	
Here’s to the flaunting extravagant quean, 	
	And here’s to the housewife that’s thrifty.	
 	
Chorus.	
	Let the toast pass, — 	
	Drink to the lass, 	
I’ll warrant she’ll prove an excuse for the glass.	
 	
Here’s to the charmer whose dimples we prize;	
	Now to the maid who has none, sir:	
Here’s to the girl with a pair of blue eyes,	
	And here’s to the nymph with but one, sir. 	
 	
Chorus.  Let the toast pass, &c.	
 	
Here’s to the maid with a bosom of snow;	
	Now to her that’s as brown as a berry: 	
Here’s to the wife with a face full of woe,	
	And now to the girl that is merry. 	
 	
Chorus.  Let the toast pass, &c.	
 	
For let ’em be clumsy, or let ’em be slim, 	
	Young or ancient, I care not a feather; 	
So fill a pint bumper quite up to the brim, 	
	And let us e’en toast them together. 	
 	
Chorus.  Let the toast pass, &c.	
				
The School for Scandal, Act iii, 1777 



Richard Brinsley Sheridan


Richard Brinsley Sheridan's other poems:
  1. O Stay, My Love


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Percy Shelley Song ("Rarely, rarely, comest thou")
  • Samuel Johnson Song ("Not the soft sighs of vernal gales")
  • Charlotte Mew Song ("Love love to-day, my dear")
  • John Davidson Song ("THE boat is chafing at our long delay")
  • Bryan Procter Song ("Here's a health to thee, Mary")
  • George Crabbe Song ("Cease to bid me not to sing")
  • Mary Montagu Song ("How happy is the harden'd heart")
  • George Etherege Song ("LADIES, though to your conquering eyes")
  • Edith Nesbit Song ("NOW the Spring is waking")
  • Mary Chudleigh Song ("Why, Damon, why, why, why so pressing?")
  • Edgar Poe Song ("I saw thee on thy bridal day") 1827
  • Aphra Behn Song ("O Love! that stronger art than wine")
  • Emma Lazarus Song ("Frosty lies the winter-landscape")
  • Amy Lowell Song ("Oh! To be a flower")
  • Bayard Taylor Song ("NOW the days are brief and drear")
  • Isaac Bickerstaffe Song ("How happy were my days, till now")
  • Hilaire Belloc Song ("Inviting the influence of a young lady upon the opening year")
  • George Lyttelton Song ("When Delia on the plain appears") 1732
  • Philip Massinger Song ("Why art thou slow, thou rest of trouble, Death")
  • Elinor Wylie Song ("It is my thoughts that colour")
  • Anna Seward Song ("FROM thy waves, stormy Llannon, I fly")
  • Aubrey De Vere Song ("HIS war-horse beats a distant bourne")
  • Maria Lowell Song ("O BIRD, thou dartest to the sun")

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