Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
The Sky Is a Drinking-Cup
By Richard Henry Stoddard (18251903)[From Poems. Complete Edition. 1880.]
T
That was overturned of old,
And it pours in the eyes of men
Its wine of airy gold.
Till the last drop is drained up,
And are lighted off to bed
By the jewels in the cup!