The sun is sinking large and round, Like a golden goblet spilling o'er, Glittering drops that drip to the ground Then I spread my lustrous wings and cleave the air Sailing high with a motion calm and slow, Far down the green earth lies like a picture fair, Then with rapid wing I sink in the shining glow; A-chasing the glinting, gleaming drops; oh, a diver Am I in a clear and golden sea, and Summer will last forever.

The company had finished dining, for the table was covered with fruits and comfits, and wine in silver goblets.

By-and-by, feeling very tired, he sat down to rest, and just where he sat grew a plant with long white flowers like tall thin goblets in shape.

Gold snuff-boxes, antique gems, jewelled goblets, Venetian wine-glasses, (which burst when poison is poured into them, and therefore must not be used for modern wine-drinking,) jasper-handled knives, painted Sevres teacups,in short, there are all sorts of things that a virtuoso ransacks the world to discover.

On Her Twenty-First Birth-Day Crown me a cheerful goblet, while I pray A blessing on thy years, young Isola; Young, but no more a child.

Cover it with an inverted goblet.

cried Helen, lifting a great, juicy grape to her lips, like a little purple goblet, hoping to hide her confusion under a playful air.

She warbled in an amorous duet, and then sang the pleasures of champagne; tossing her head; waving a gilt goblet; and, without the least appearance of effort, working hard to captivate those who were to be won by bold smiles and arch glances.

cried Helen, lifting a great, juicy grape to her lips, like a little purple goblet, hoping to hide her confusion under a playful air.

He was playing host, and pouring out a dark golden sherry wine into luxurious spun glass goblets.

The Senator's firm step resounded on the marble floor; they had scant time to recover themselves; but his eyes fell at once upon the magnificent goblet, and there was pleasure in his stern face.

Pure crystal goblet!

and again he emptied the replenished goblet.

Then raise the rosy goblet high, The senior's chalice and belie The tongues that trouble and defile, For we have yet a little while To linger, you and youth and I, In college days.

All nature is a vast sacred goblet, filling drop by drop to the brim, and not to be shaken.

'Oh priest, remember, keep thine oath,' she cried, And the spent goblet fell against her side.

And already thou hast won the favor of the Senate, since it hath been reported to them by our Chief of the Ten, who hath the industries of Murano in charge, that at the exhibit given yestere'en a goblet more sumptuous than that prepared for his Majesty of France was of thy designing.

In Styria he ate boar's meat from battered silver plate and drank sour wine from superannuated golden goblets; in Switzerland he ate tender, juicy meats and toothsome pastries from stone dishes and drank rich Cannstadt beer from leathern mugs.

And the young noble's unique fancy for a superb goblet of crystal da Beroviero, with a miniature of Marina of Murano enlaced in exquisite gold borders and set round with costly pearlsa trifle fit to offer to a princessnot only pleased the artist's well-known taste for luxury, but seemed to him an object worthy of his skill.

By-and-by, feeling very tired, he sat down to rest, and just where he sat grew a plant with long white flowers like tall thin goblets in shape.

But Victor wouldn't listen; and disappearing into shadowed distances, returned presently with a brimming goblet.

All nature is a vast sacred goblet, filling drop by drop to the brim, and not to be shaken.

He had doubts, difficulties, which no Manichean could explain, not even Dr. Faustus of Mileve, the great oracle and leader of the sect,a subtle dialectician and brilliant orator, but without depth or earnestness,whom he compares to a cup-bearer presenting a costly goblet, but without anything in it.

There are your damned goblets, as safe as in a church; there are you, with your heart ticking as good as new; and here am I, ready to go out again as poor as I came in, with my one white that you threw in my teeth!

In The Profligate, as presented on the stage, Dunstan Renshaw changed his mind before draining the fatal goblet; and in this case the stage version was surely the right one.