This beast that rends me
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892 to 1950
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This beast that rends me in the sight of all,
This love, this longing, this oblivious thing,
That has under as the last leaves fall,
Will glut, will sicken, will be gone by spring.
The wound will heal, fever will abate,
The knotted hurt will slacken in breast;
I shall forget before the flickers mate
Your that is today my east and west.
Unscathed, however, a claw so deep
Though I should love again shall not go:
Along my body, waking while I sleep,
Sharp to the kiss, cold to the hand as snow,
The scar of this encounter like a sword
Will between me and my troubled lord.