Poems by Edward Estlin Cummings

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Collections: Tulips and Chimneys – 1923 – XLI Poems – Is 5

In English

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A Chorus Girl
When thou hast taken thy last applause, and when
The final curtain strikes the world away,
Leaving to shadowy silence and dismay… Continue Reading …

Amores I
consider O
woman this
my body, … Continue Reading …

Amores II
there is a
moon sole
in the blue … Continue Reading …

Amores III
as is the sea marvelous
from god’s
hands which sent her forth … Continue Reading …

Amores IV
if i believe
in death be sure
of this … Continue Reading …

Amores V
the glory is fallen out of
the sky the last immortal
leaf … Continue Reading …

Amores VI
i like
to think that on
the flower you gave me when we … Continue Reading …

Amores VII
O Distinct
Lady of my unkempt adoration
if i have made … Continue Reading …

Amores VIII
your little voice
Over the wires came leaping
and i felt suddenly … Continue Reading …

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Ballade
The white night roared with a huge north-wind,
And he sat before his thundering flame,
Quaffing holly-crowned wine.… Continue Reading …

Buffalo Bill’s
Buffalo Bill’s
defunct
who used to … Continue Reading …

But The Other
but the other
day i was passing a certain
gate rain … Continue Reading …

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Chansons Innocentes I
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little … Continue Reading …

Chansons Innocentes II
hist whist
little ghostthings
tip-toe … Continue Reading …

Chansons Innocentes III
Tumbling-hair
picker of buttercups
violets … Continue Reading …

Crepuscule
I will wade out
till my thighs are steeped in burning
flowers … Continue Reading …

Christmas Tree
little tree
little silent Christmas tree
you are so little … Continue Reading …

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Epitaph
Tumbling-hair
picker of buttercups
violets … Continue Reading …

Epithalamion
Thou aged unreluctant earth who dost
with quivering continual thighs invite
the thrilling rain the slender paramour … Continue Reading …

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F

Finis
Over silent waters
day descending
night ascending … Continue Reading …

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Impressions I
the sky a silver
dissonance by the correct
fingers of April … Continue Reading …

Impressions II
writhe and
gape of tortured … Continue Reading …

Impressions III
i was considering how
within night’s loose
sack a star’s … Continue Reading …

Impressions IV
the hours rise up putting off stars and it is and it is
dawn
into the street of the sky light walks scattering poems … Continue Reading …

Impressions V
stinging
gold swarms
upon the spires … Continue Reading …

In Just-
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little … Continue Reading …

Into The Strenuous Briefness
into the strenuous briefness
Life:
handorgans and April … Continue Reading …

It May Not Always Be So
It may not always be so; and I say
That if your lips, which I have loved, should touch
Another’s, and your dear strong fingers clutch … Continue Reading …

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La Guerre I
the bigness of cannon
is skilful, … Continue Reading …

La Guerre II
O sweet spontaneous
earth how often have
the … Continue Reading …

Little tree
little tree
little silent Christmas tree
you are so little … Continue Reading …

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O

O Distinct
O Distinct
Lady of my unkempt adoration
if I have made … Continue Reading …

O Sweet Spontaneous
O sweet spontanous
earth how often have
the … Continue Reading …

Of Nicolette
dreaming in marble all the castle lay
like some gigantic ghost-flower born of night
blossoming in white towers to the moon, … Continue Reading …

Orientale I
I spoke to thee
with a smile and thou didst not
answer … Continue Reading …

Orientale II
lean candles hunger in
the silence a
brown god … Continue Reading …

Orientale III
my love
thy hair is one kingdom
the king whereof is darkness … Continue Reading …

Orientale IV
listen
beloved
i dreamed … Continue Reading …

Orientale V
unto thee i
burn incense
the bowl crackles … Continue Reading …

Orientale VI
the emperor
sleeps in a palace of porphyry
which was a million years building … Continue Reading …

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P

Portraits I
the
nimble
heat … Continue Reading …

Portraits II
of evident invisibles
exquisite the hovering … Continue Reading …

Portraits III
between nose-red gross
walls sprawling with tipsy
tables the abominable … Continue Reading …

Portraits IV
i walked the boulevard
i saw a dirty child
skating on noisy wheels of joy … Continue Reading …

Portraits V
the young
man sitting
in Dick Mid’s Place … Continue Reading …

Portraits VI
but the other
day i was passing a certain
gate, rain … Continue Reading …

Portraits VII
the rose
is dying the
lips of an old man murder … Continue Reading …

Portraits VIII
Buffalo Bill’s
defunct
who used to … Continue Reading …

Portraits IX
spring omnipotent goddess thou dost
inveigle into crossing sidewalks the
unwary june-bug and the frivolous angleworm … Continue Reading …

Portraits X
somebody knew Lincoln somebody Xerxes
this man: a narrow thudding timeshaped face
plus innocuous winking hands, carefully … Continue Reading …

Post Impressions I
beyond the brittle towns asleep
ilook where stealing needles of foam
in the last light … Continue Reading …

Post Impressions II
the moon is hiding in
her hair.
The … Continue Reading …

Post Impressions III
into the strenuous briefness
Life:
handorgans and April … Continue Reading …

Post Impressions IV
iam going to utter a tree, Nobody
shall stop me … Continue Reading …

Post Impressions V
any man is wonderful
and a formula
a bit of tobacco and gladness … Continue Reading …

Post Impressions VI
at the head of this street a gasping organ is waving motheaten tunes. a fatish hand turns the crank; … Continue Reading …

Puella Mea
Harun Omar and Master Hafiz
keep your dead beautiful ladies.
Mine is a little lovelier… Continue Reading …

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Song I
(thee will i praise between those rivers whose
white voices pass upon forgetting [fail
me not] whose courseless waters are a gloat … Continue Reading …

Song II
Always before your voice my soul
half-beautiful and wholly droll
is as some smooth and awkward foal, … Continue Reading …

Song III
Thy fingers make early flowers of
all things.
thy hair mostly the hours love: … Continue Reading …

Song IV
All in green went my love riding
on a great horse of gold
into the silver dawn. … Continue Reading …

Song V
Doll’s boy ’s asleep
under a stile
he sees eight and twenty … Continue Reading …

Song VI
when god lets my body be
From each brave eye shall sprout a tree
fruit that dangles therefrom … Continue Reading …

Spring Omnipotent Goddess Thou
spring omnipotent goddess Thou
dost stuff parks
with overgrown pimply … Continue Reading …

Summer Silence
Eruptive lightnings flutter to and fro
Above the heights of immemorial hills;
Thirst-stricken air, dumb-throated, in its woe … Continue Reading …

Sunset
Great carnal mountains crouching in the cloud
That marrieth the young earth with a ring,
Yet still its thoughts builds heavenward, whence spring … Continue Reading …

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The Bigness Of Cannon
the bigness of cannon
is skilful,
but i have seen … Continue Reading …

The Lover Speaks
Your little voice
Over the wires came leaping
and I felt suddenly … Continue Reading …

This Is The Garden
This is the garden: colors come and go,
Frail azures fluttering from night’s outer wing,
Strong silent greens serenely lingering, … Continue Reading …

Thou In Whose Sword-Great Story Shine The Deeds
Thou in whose sword-great story shine the deeds
Of history her heroes, sounds the tread
Of those vast armies of the marching dead, … Continue Reading …

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When God Lets My Body Be
when god lets my body be
From each brave eye shall sprout a tree
fruit that dangles therefrom … Continue Reading …

When Life Is Quite Through With
when life is quite through with
and leaves say alas,
much is to do … Continue Reading …

Why Did You Go
why did you go
little fourpaws?
you forgot to shut … Continue Reading …

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