Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Dedication Contents Introduction Prelude I A CHILD’S WORLD

Days of Innocence

1 who are you,little i 2 in Just- 3 who sharpens every dull 4 O the sun comes up-up-up in the opening 5 maggie and milly and molly and may 6 at the head of this street a gasping organ is waving moth-eaten 7 who were so dark of heart they might not speak

Adult Nursery Rhymes

1 o by the by 2 if everything happens that can’t be done 3 as freedom is a breakfastfood 4 what if a much of a which of a wind 5 when faces called flowers float out of the ground

II SWEET SPONTANEOUS EARTH

Spring

1 spring omnipotent goddess thou dost 2 O sweet spontaneous 3 in 4 Spring is like a perhaps hand 5 the sky a silver 6 now winging selves sing sweetly,while ghosts (there

Other Seasons, Other Creatures

1 SNO 2 beyond the stolid iron pond 3 the hills 4 beyond the brittle towns asleep 5 may my heart always be open to little 6 now comes the good rain farmers pray for(and 7 a wind has blown the rain away and blown 8 mouse)Won 9 when god lets my body be

III THE POETRY OF THE EYE

The Creative Process

1 of my 2 Picasso

The Cubist Break-Up

1 writhe and 2 mr. smith 3 the sky 4 l(a 5 s( 6 how 7 n 8 r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r 9 n(o)w the 10 as if as 11 sh estiffl 12 birds(here,inven 13 (b eLl s? bE

IV PORTRAITS

1 the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls 2 if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have 3 my father moved through dooms of love 4 Buffalo Bill’s 5 little joe gould has lost his teeth and doesn’t know where 6 rain or hail

V LOVE AND ITS MYSTERIES

1 O Distinct 2 My love is building a building 3 somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond 4 chérie the very,picturesque,last Day 5 along the brittle treacherous bright streets 6 you shall above all things be glad and young. 7 yes is a pleasant country: 8 it is so long since my heart has been with yours 9 your homecoming will be my home-coming— 10 one’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one: 11 silently if,out of not knowable 12 hate blows a bubble of despair into 13 being to timelessness as it’s to time,

VI ACHIEVING THE TOGETHER-COLOURED INSTANT

1 my girl’s tall with hard long eyes 2 O It’s Nice To Get Up In,the slipshod mucous kiss 3 (ponder,darling,these busted statues 4 she being Brand 5 n w 6 “think of it:not so long ago 7 look 8 sometimes i am alive because with 9 i like my body when it is with your

VII KITTY, MIMI, MARJ, AND FRIENDS

1 wanta 2 twentyseven bums give a prostitute the once 3 goodby Betty,don’t remember me 4 little ladies more 5 “kitty”. sixteen,5′1″,white,prostitute. 6 the poem her belly marched through me as 7 when you rang at Dick Mid’s Place 8 nearer:breath of my breath:take not thy tingling 9 the dirty colours of her kiss have just 10 in making Marjorie god hurried 11 between the breasts

VIII THE DIMENSIONS OF BEING HUMAN

1 since feeling is first 2 all ignorance toboggans into know 3 the trick of finding what you didn’t lose 4 there are so many tictoc 5 what time is it?it is by every star 6 wherelings whenlings 7 conceive a man,should he have anything 8 sonnet entitled how to run the world) 9 dying if fine)but Death

IX MYTHS AND ALLEGORIES

1 anyone lived in a pretty how town 2 the Noster was a ship of swank 3 one(Floatingly)arrive 4 all in green went my love riding 5 here is little Effie’s head 6 the wind is a Lady with 7 death(having lost)put on his universe 8 don’t get me wrong oblivion 9 suppose 10 it’s over a(see just 11 Tumbling-hair picker of buttercups violets 12 in heavenly realms of hellas dwelt 13 now two old ladies sit peacefully knitting, 14 let us suspect,chérie,this not very big

X URBAN GLIMPSES

1 the hours rise up putting off stars and it is 2 but the other 3 logeorge lo wellifitisn’teddy how’s the boy 4 the skinny voice 5 a man who had fallen among thieves 6 i was sitting in mcsorley’s. outside it was New York and beautifully snowing. 7 that melancholy 8 Paris;this April sunset completely utters; 9 stinging

XI TARGETS OF SATIRE

War

1 a Woman of bronze 2 my sweet old etcetera 3 “next to of course god america i 4 i sing of Olaf glad and big 5 ygUDuh 6 plato told

Politics

1 F is for foetus(a 2 a salesman is an it that stinks Excuse 3 the way to hump a cow is not

Communism and Fascism

1 (of Ever-Ever Land i speak 2 kumrads die because they’re told) 3 red-rag and pink-flag 4 THANKSGIVING (1956)

The Literary Scene

1 POEM,OR BEAUTY HURTS MR. VINAL 2 what does little Ernest croon 3 flotsam and jetsam 4 BALLAD OF AN INTELLECTUAL

Misanthropic Moods

1 when serpents bargain for the right to squirm 2 pity this busy monster,manunkind, 3 Space being(don’t forget to remember) Curved 4 (“fire stop thief help murder save the world” 5 Jehovah buried,Satan dead,

XII ENDINGS

Self-Excoriation

1 a total stranger one black day 2 so many selves(so many fiends and gods 3 no man,if men are gods;but if gods must

Religious Leanings

1 i thank You God for most this amazing 2 i am a little church(no great cathedral) 3 it is winter a moon in the afternoon 4 from spiralling ecstatically this 5 brIght

Whispers of Mortality

1 old age sticks 2 for prodigal read generous 3 enter no(silence is the blood whose flesh 4 now does our world descend 5 all nearness pauses,while a star can grow 6 what is 7 when life is quite through with 8 in time of daffodils(who know 9 Now i lay(with everywhere around) 10 one

POSTLUDE

life is more true than reason will deceive

Index of Titles and Dates of Publication Also by E. E. Cummings Copyright

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