I taste a liquor never brewed — From Tankards scooped in Pearl — Not all the Vats upon the Rhine Yield such an Alcohol!
— Emily Dickinson Modern

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Poem 214

Date / Period

c. 1861

Category

Humorous

Source

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45705/i-taste-a-liquor-never-brewed-214

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