Initially, the speaker of the poem tells the reader that she will rise from the dead and start making a bowl of wine, both red and white. The speaker will then summon a number of characters from Greek mythology and then picture creatures from classical mythology. Then, in her makeshift of the bowl, she will cut some familiar shapes like wine leaves.
After her mind is worn out and the bowl completed it is time for wine to come from her vision. It is not just any wine; it is a wine that will bring songs of flowers, earth, and hill: songs of cool night, moonlight, and stars.
The song of her wine will challenge other song-making instruments like stringed lyre to sing louder and praise the song of that wine.
That song will make lovers come together and confess their love to each other, men who sleep by the forest wish to be closer to tide and sea, men who crouch by fireplaces in their home to want nothing but riot of the stars in the night, those who live inland to want to seek ships, those who wander away to want to come back home and those at home to want to wander.
The poem ends with the speaker repeating the line from the beginning where she will rise from the dead and start making a bowl for both red and white wine.
