Sunday 15 September 2013

It Filled My Heart With Love by Stevie Smith


IT FILLED MY HEART WITH LOVE

When I hold in my hand a soft and crushable animal, and feel the
  fur beat for fear and the soft feather, I cannot feel unhappy.


In his fur the animal rode, and in his fur he strove,
And oh it filled my heart my heart, it filled my heart with love.

 

Stevie Smith, Selected Poems, ed. by James MacGibbon (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979), 201.

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