Death & Dying
Away with funeral music
From New Poems (1918)
Death & Dying
AWAY with funeral music—set
The pipe to powerful lips—
The cup of life’s for him that drinks
And not for him that sips.
Cite this poem
MLA
Stevenson, Robert Louis. “Away with funeral music.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/172/.
Chicago
Stevenson, Robert Louis. “Away with funeral music.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/172/.
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