Voracities and Verities Sometimes Are Interacting - Marianne Moore

I don't like diamonds;

the emerald's "grass-lamp glow" is better;

and unobtrusiveness is dazzling,

upon occasion.

Some kinds of gratitude are trying.

Poets, don't make a fuss;

the elephant's "crooked trumpet" "doth write;

and to a tiger-book I am reading -

I think you know the one -

I am under obligation.

One may be pardoned, yes I know

one may, for love undying.

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Note: Tiger-book: Major James Corbett's Man-Eaters of Kumaon.