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