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Born in October 14, 1894 / Died in September 3, 1962 / United States / English

Poems by Edward Estlin Cummings

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into the strenuous briefness

... into the women-coloured twilight i smilingly glide ...

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Marianne Moore (35)

... I in a wavering world-to stand firmA in a cruel world-to show mercy ...

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when serpents bargain for the right to squirm... (22)

... and rainbows are insured against old agewhen every thrush may sing no new moon in ...

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there are so many tictoc...

... we'll kiss each kiss other on kiss the kiss ...

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spring omnipotent goddess Thou

... angleworm Thou dost hang canary birds in parlour windows ...

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this evangelist... (XXIX)

... ms of deeply bulging thousandsi too omit one kellyin response to howjedooze the candidate's new silk ...

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of all the blessings which to man... (IV)

... -which something as you'll never guess ...

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warped this perhapsy... (9)

... InGs ly)tuck.s its(ghostsoul sheshape)elf into leasting forever most ...

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INTRODUCTION from New Poems

... n or pause,never the soft adventure of undoom,greedy anguishes and cringing ecstasies of inexistence ...

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yonder deadfromtheneckup graduate... (V)

... her time looking picturesque underthe as it happens quite ...

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mrs... (15)

... ose three disappear finally what's leftbehind is(just a head of heis)merely(a pair of ears with some ...

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this(let's remember)day died again and...

... larger than sky times earth:a flame beyond ...

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up into the silence the green... (41)

... silence with a white earth in ityou will(kiss me)goout into the morning the young ...

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proud of his scientific attitude... (13)

... proud of his scientific attitudeand liked the prince of wales wife wants to die ...

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mr youse needn't be so spry... (XVIII)

... for youse ideas i'll match yousea pretty girl who naked is ...