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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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Sometimes I Am Alive Because With

... large togethercoloured instantthe moment pleasantly frightfulwhen, her mouth suddenly rising, wholly ...

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(will you teach a... (12)

... wretch to live straighter than a needle)ask ...

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because it's

... steadof everybodyelse's)butwhat's wholly ...

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next to of course god america i... (III)

... who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter ...

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all which isn't singing is mere talking

... and all talking's to oneself alonebut the very song of(as mountains ...

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speaking of love(of... (LV)

... becomes if your heart's mind)i ...

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i am a little church

... of hope,and i wake to a perfect patience of mountainsi am a little church(far from the frantic ...

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it may not always be so

... and i say that if your lips,which i have loved,should touch ...

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lily has a rose

... you is the tallest of the boys""he'll give me another ...

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in a middle of a room

... looked at whom first,anyhow dancing"(a moon swims out of a cloud ...

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l(a

... l(ale affa ll s)one l iness (1958) ...

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O sweet spontaneous

... buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive ...

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it is at moments after I have dreamed

... ness of your charms:one pierced moment whiter than the rest-turning from the tremendous lie of sleep ...

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but if a living dance upon dead minds

... disdains the trivial labelling of punctual brains ...

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the way to hump a cow is not... (14)

... and bellow like a boolto lay a wreath from ancient greath ...