O Love, Sweet Animal by Delmore Schwartz
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
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
This poem touches my heart, due to the fact that I am an animal lover. There has been many times that a pet has comforted me in their own way and the memories held of each pet is enormous!! Loved it!!
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http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/delmore_schwartz/poems/18333.html
I enjoyed reading this poem also. I can't say that I'm an animal lover, but I do love dogs. Animals can make the lonliest person feel like the most special person in the world. All people are not animal lovers. For instance, my daughter is terrified of animals.
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