100 Selected Poems. E. E. Cummings
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5 34. if i love You
6 35. somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
7 36. but if a living dance upon dead minds
1 37. sonnet entitled how to run the world)
2 38. may i feel said he
3 39. little joe gould has lost his teeth and doesn’t know where
4 40. kumrads die because they’re told)
5 41. conceive a man, should he have anything
6 42. here’s to opening and upward, to leaf and to sap
7 43. what a proud dreamhorse pulling(smoothloomingly)through
8 44. Jehovah buried. Satan dead,
9 45. this mind made war
10 46. love’s function is to fabricate unknownness
11 47. death(having lost)put on his universe
NEW POEMS {from Collected Poems} (1938)
1 48. kind)
2 49. (of Ever-Ever Land i speak
3 50. this little bride & groom are
4 51. my specialty is living said
5 52. if i
6 53. may my heart always be open to little
7 54. you shall above all things be glad and young.
1 55. flotsam and jetsam
2 56. spoke joe to jack
3 57. red-rag and pink-flag
4 58. proud of his scientific attitude
5 59. a pretty a day
6 60. as freedom is a breakfastfood
7 61. anyone lived in a pretty how town
8 62. my father moved through dooms of love
9 63. i say no world
10 64. these children singing in stone a
11 65. love is the every only god
12 66. love is more thicker than forget
13 67. hate blows a bubble of despair into
14 68. what freedom’s not some under’s mere above
1 69. of all the blessings which to man
2 70. a salesman is an it that stinks Excuse
3 71. a politician is an arse upon
4 72. plato told
5 73. pity this busy monster, manunkind,
6 74. one’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one:
7 75. what if a much of a which of a wind
8 76. no man, if men are gods; but if gods must
9 77. when god decided to invent
10 78. rain or hail
11 79. let it go—the
12 80. nothing false and possible is love
13 81. except in your
14 82. true lovers in each happening of their hearts
15 83. yes is a pleasant country:
16 84. all ignorance toboggans into know
17 85. darling! because my blood can sing
18 86. “sweet spring is your
19 87. O by the by
20 88. if everything happens that can’t be done
1 89. when serpents bargain for the right to squirm
2 90. if a cheerfulest Elephantangelchild should sit
3 91. o to be in finland
4 92. no time ago
5 93. to start, to hesitate; to stop
6 94. if(touched by love’s own secret)we,like homing
7 95. i thank You God for most this amazing
8 96. the great advantage of being alive
9 97. when faces called flowers float out of the ground
10 98. love our so right
11 99. now all the fingers of this tree(darling)have
12 100. luminous tendril of celestial wish
to marion
1
Thy fingers make early flowers of
all things.
thy hair mostly the hours love:
a smoothness which
sings, saying
(though love be a day)
do not fear, we will go amaying.
thy whitest feet crisply are straying
Always
thy moist eyes are at kisses playing,
whose strangeness much
says; singing
(though love be a day)
for which girl art thou flowers bringing?
To be thy lips is a sweet thing
and small.
Death, Thee i call rich beyond wishing
if this thou catch,
else missing.
(though love be a day
and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing).
2
All in green went my love riding
on a great horse of gold
into the silver dawn.
four lean hounds crouched low and smiling
the