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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WARNING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Fly away, o white-winged moth!
Last Line: You're too slight for love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Moths
First Line: Fly away, o white-winged moth!
Last Line: You're too slight for love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Moths
FLY away, O white-winged moth!
Wherefore burn your tender wings?
Fatal is the flame you love
To such gauzy things.
That too ardent crimson ray
Only steel may safely prove:
Use your wings to fly away --
You're too slight for love.
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