Otomo no Tabito 大伴旅人
c. 729 · Nara Japan
Rather than brood on things that do no good, better, it seems, to drink a cup of cloudy sake.
験なきものを思はずは一坏の濁れる酒を飲むべくあるらしMan'yoshu, book 3, one of thirteen poems in praise of sake
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Li Bai 李白
744 · Tang China
Among the flowers, a jug of wine. I pour alone, with no one close. I raise my cup and invite the bright moon; with my shadow, that makes three.
花間一壺酒，獨酌無相親。
舉杯邀明月，對影成三人。"Drinking Alone under the Moon," the first poem, in the Complete Tang Poems
Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修
1046 · Song China · At Chuzhou, where he had been demoted. At thirty-nine he called himself an old man
The old drunkard's mind is not on the wine. It is among the hills and streams.
醉翁之意不在酒，在乎山水之間也。"The Old Drunkard's Pavilion"
Omar Khayyam عمر خیام
11th–12th century · Nishapur, Persia
How strangely fast this caravan of life goes by. Catch the moment that passes in joy. Cupbearer, why fret over your friends' tomorrow? Bring the cup, for the night is passing.
این قافله عمر عجب میگذرد
دریاب دمی که با طرب میگذرد
ساقی غم فردای حریفان چه خوری
پیش آر پیاله را که شب میگذردA quatrain (rubai) handed down under Khayyam's name
The Archpoet Archipoeta
c. 1163 · Holy Roman Empire
I am resolved to die in a tavern, so that wine may be near my dying lips.
Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
ut sint vina proxima morientis ori."Confession" (Confessio)
Cao Cao 曹操
c. AD 208 · end of the Later Han, China
Facing the wine, let us sing. How long is a life? It is like the morning dew, and the days gone by are bitterly many. My heart swells with feeling, but the cares are hard to forget. What can undo my sorrow? Only wine.
對酒當歌，人生幾何！
譬如朝露，去日苦多。
慨當以慷，憂思難忘。
何以解憂？唯有杜康。"Short Song"
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