<link href="css/100PoemstoLift_style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:b5deb324-3277-4bf0-b2e2-33e09cad2632" name="Adept.expected.resource"/></head><body> <div class="galley-rw"> <section class="body-rw Chapter-rw" epub:type="bodymatter chapter" id="chap25"><div class="body"><div class="chapter" id="chapter_25"> <p class="hn"><em>The poetry of E. E. Cummings is notable for its typographical ingenuity almost as much as for its language and sentiments; together they usually form a harmonious union of form and content. The first poem here graphically reproduces the idea of children wandering through a field of flowers. The second is more traditional in its type design, but similarly sensitive to the awakening of a child to the essence of the natural world.</em></p> <p class="cn"><a href="toc.xhtml#chap_25">TUMBLING-HAIR</a></p> <p class="ct">E. E. Cummings</p> <p class="da">(1894–1962)</p> <p class="vtx">Tumbling-hair</p> <p class="vtx"> picker of buttercups</p> <p class="vtx"> violets</p> <p class="vtx">dandelions</p> <p class="vtx">And the big bullying daisies</p> <p class="vtx"> through the field wonderful</p> <p class="vtx">with eyes a little sorry</p> <p class="vtx">Another comes</p> <p class="vtx"> also picking flowers</p> </div></div></section> </div> </body></html>