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The term "O love, sweet animal" has been searched for 45 times on the American Poems site since March 2nd, 2005.
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1. O Love, Sweet Animal - written by Delmore Schwartz
Read 1671 times on American Poems.
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... (Read full poem)
2. My Life - written by Joe Wenderoth
From It Is If I Speak.
Published in 2000.
Read 1365 times on American Poems.
after Henri Michaux
Somehow it got into my room.
I found it, and it was, naturally, trapped.
It was nothing more than a frightened animal.
Since than I raised it up.
I kept it for myself, kept it in my room,
kept it for its... (Read full poem)
3. Stalk Me - written by Maggie Estep
From Love Is A Dog From Hell.
Read 1227 times on American Poems.
Liner Notes - (from Love Is A Dog From Hell)
My friend Jenny is really
worried that people are going to follow me around and send me dead animal
parts and doll heads as a result of this song but please, if you feel inclined
to send me dead animal... (Read full poem)
4. Two Songs - written by Adrienne Rich
Read 6328 times on American Poems.
1.
Sex, as they harshly call it,
I fell into this morning
at ten o'clock, a drizzling hour
of traffic and wet newspapers.
I thought of him who yesterday
clearly didn't
turn me to a hot field
ready for plowing,
and longing for that young... (Read full poem)
6. Beginning my Studies. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 8895 times on American Poems.
BEGINNING my studies, the first step pleas’d me so much,
The mere fact, consciousness—these forms—the power of motion,
The least insect or animal—the senses—eyesight—love;
The first step, I say, aw’d me and... (Read full poem)
8. The New Dog - written by Linda Pastan
Read 1404 times on American Poems.
Into the gravity of my life,
the serious ceremonies
of polish and paper
and pen, has come
this manic animal
whose innocent disruptions
make nonsense
of my old simplicities--
as if I needed him
to prove again that after
all the careful... (Read full poem)
9. What Is To Be Given - written by Delmore Schwartz
Read 989 times on American Poems.
What is to be given,
Is spirit, yet animal,
Colored, like heaven,
Blue, yellow, beautiful.
The blood is checkered by
So many stains and wishes,
Between it and the sky
You could not choose, for riches.
Yet let me now be careful
Not to give too... (Read full poem)
10. The Fury Of Cocks - written by Anne Sexton
From The Death Notebooks.
Published in 1974.
Read 5640 times on American Poems.
There they are
drooping over the breakfast plates,
angel-like,
folding in their sad wing,
animal sad,
and only the night before
there they were
playing the banjo.
Once more the day's light comes
with its immense sun,
its mother trucks,... (Read full poem)
11. Dream Song 106: 28 July - written by John Berryman
From His Toy, His Dream, His Rest.
Published in 1968.
Read 753 times on American Poems.
28 July
Calmly, while sat up friendlies & made noise
delight fuller than he can ready sing
or studiously say,
on hearing that the year had swung to pause
and culminated in an abundant thing,
came his... (Read full poem)
12. The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me - written by Delmore Schwartz
Read 2140 times on American Poems.
"the withness of the body" --Whitehead
The heavy bear who goes with me,
A manifold honey to smear his face,
Clumsy and lumbering here and there,
The central ton of every place,
The hungry beating brutish one
In love with candy, anger, and... (Read full poem)
14. Meditatio - written by Ezra Pound
Read 10465 times on American Poems.
When I carefully consider the curious habits of dogs
I am compelled to conclude
That man is the superior animal.
When I consider the curious habits of man
I confess, my friend, I am puzzled.(Read full poem)
15. Rough Beast - written by Jean Monahan
From http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/monahan/roughbeast.htm.
Read 649 times on American Poems.
Don't tell a camel about need and want.
Look at the big lips
pursed
in perpetual kiss,
the dangerous lashes
of a born coquette.
The camel is an animal
grateful for less.
It keeps to itself
the hidden spring choked with grass,
the sharpest... (Read full poem)
16. Love Song - written by Dorothy Parker
From Enough Rope.
Published in 1926.
Read 7457 times on American Poems.
My own dear love, he is strong and bold
And he cares not what comes after.
His words ring sweet as a chime of gold,
And his eyes are lit with laughter.
He is jubilant as a flag unfurled --
Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him.
My own dear love, he is... (Read full poem)
17. To Earthward - written by Robert Frost
From New Hampshire.
Published in 1923.
Read 7756 times on American Poems.
Love at the lips was touch
As sweet as I could bear;
And once that seemed too much;
I lived on air
That crossed me from sweet things,
The scent of -- was it musk
From hidden grapevine springs
Down hill at dusk?
I had the swirl and ache
From... (Read full poem)
18. 2 Futilists - written by Bill Knott
Read 885 times on American Poems.
Even if the mountain I climbed
Proved to be merely a duncecap It
was only on gaining its peak
That that knowledge reached me.
*
Is there a single inch--
one square millimeter
on the face of our planet
which some animal
human... (Read full poem)
19. She Understands Me - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 1064 times on American Poems.
it is all blood and breaking,
blood and breaking, the thing
drops out of its box squalling
into the light. they are both squalling,
animal and cage. her bars lie wet, open
and empty and she has made herself again
out of flesh out of... (Read full poem)
20. What We Want - written by Linda Pastan
Read 1763 times on American Poems.
What we want
is never simple.
We move among the things
we thought we wanted:
a face, a room, an open book
and these things bear our names--
now they want us.
But what we want appears
in dreams, wearing disguises.
We fall past,
holding out our... (Read full poem)
21. The Last Question - written by Dorothy Parker
From Sunset Gun.
Published in 1928.
Read 5360 times on American Poems.
New love, new love, where are you to lead me?
All along a narrow way that marks a crooked line.
How are you to slake me, and how are you to feed me?
With bitter yellow berries, and a sharp new wine.
New love, new love, shall I be forsaken?
One... (Read full poem)
22. telling our stories - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 792 times on American Poems.
the fox came every evening to my door
asking for nothing. my fear
trapped me inside, hoping to dismiss her
but she sat till morning, waiting.
at dawn we would, each of us,
rise frm our haunches, look through the glass
then walk away.
did... (Read full poem)
23. Yes And No - written by Laura Riding Jackson
Read 2544 times on American Poems.
Across a continent imaginary
Because it cannot be discovered now
Upon this fully apprehended planet—
No more applicants considered,
Alas, alas—
Ran an animal unzoological,
Without a fate, without a fact,
Its private history... (Read full poem)
24. The Great Fires - written by Jack Gilbert
From The Great Fires.
Published in 1994.
Read 24925 times on American Poems.
Love is apart from all things.
Desire and excitement are nothing beside it.
It is not the body that finds love.
What leads us there is the body.
What is not love provokes it.
What is not love quenches it.
Love lays hold of everything we know.... (Read full poem)
25. February: Thinking of Flowers - written by Jane Kenyon
Read 2749 times on American Poems.
Now wind torments the field,
turning the white surface back
on itself, back and back on itself,
like an animal licking a wound.
Nothing but white--the air, the light;
only one brown milkweed pod
bobbing in the gully, smallest
brown boat on... (Read full poem)
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