Sara Teasdale

The Wine

I cannot die, who drank delight
    From the cup of the crescent moon,
And hungrily as men eat bread,
    Loved the scented nights of June.
 
The rest may die—but is there not
    Some shining strange escape for me
Who sought in Beauty the bright wine
    Of immortality?
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