Fill a glass with golden wine

Fill a glass with golden wine,
And the while your lips are wet
Set their perfume unto mine,
And forget
Every kiss we take and give
Leaves us less of life to live.
Yet again! Your whim and mine
In a happy while have met.
All your sweets to me resign,
Nor regret
That we press with every breath,
sighed or singing, nearer death.

by William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) , no title, from A Book of Verses, published 1888

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by George Sainton Kaye Butterworth (1885-1916) , no title, 1911-2 [baritone and string quartet], from Love blows as the wind blows, no. 3.
by Henry Kimball Hadley (1871-1937) , "Fill a glass with golden wine", published 1910. [voice and piano]
by Roger Quilter (1877-1953) , "Fill a glass with golden wine", published 1905. [voice and piano]

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