Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
To a Moth That Drinketh of the Ripe October, by Emily Pfeiffer

Not vainly, sprite, thou drawest careless breath,
Strikest ambrosia from the cool-cupp’d flowers,
And flutterest through the soft, uncounted hours,
To drop at last in unawaited death
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https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2021/10/to-moth-that-drinketh-of-ripe-october.html

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