O Love, dark animal,
With your strangeness go
Like any freak or clown:
Appease tee child in her
Because she is alone
Many years ago
Terrified by a look
Which was not meant for her.
Brush your heavy fur
Against her, long and slow
Stare at her like a book,
Her interests being such
No one can look too much.
Tell her how you know
Nothing can be taken
Which has not been given:
For you time is forgiven:
Informed by hell and heaven
You are not mistaken
O Love, Sweet Animal
Delmore Schwartz
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Poem topics: I love you, alone, animal, child, dark, heaven, time, long, book, heavy, slow, love, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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