Living
Snatch
From Robert Louis Stevenson: An Elegy, and Other Poems (1895)
Living
From tavern to tavern
Youth passes along,
With an armful of girl
And a heart full of song.
From flower to flower
The butterfly sips,
O passionate limbs
And importunate lips!
From candle to candle
The moth loves to fly,
O sweet, sweet to burn!
And still sweeter to die!
Cite this poem
MLA
Gallienne, Richard Le. “Snatch.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/legallienne/90/.
Chicago
Gallienne, Richard Le. “Snatch.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/legallienne/90/.
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