Come

By Sara Teasdale

Come, when the pale moon like a petal

Floats in the pearly dusk of spring,

Come with arms outstretched to take me,

Come with lips pursed up to cling.

Come, for life is a frail moth flying,

Caught in the web of the years that pass,

And soon we two, so warm and eager,

Will be as the gray stones in the grass.