100 Selected Poems / E E Cummings

Tulips and Chimneys (1923) --
Thy fingers make early flowers of --
All in green went my love riding --
When god lets my body be --
In Just--
--
O sweet spontaneous --
Buffalo Bill's --
The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls --
It may not always be so; and i say --
& {And} (1925) --
Suppose --
Raise the shade --
Here is little Effie's head --
Spring is like a perhaps hand --
Who knows if the moon's --
I like my body when it is with your --
XLI Poems (1925) --
Little tree --
Humanity i love you --
Is 5 (1926) --
Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal --
Nobody loses all the time --
Mr youse needn't be so spry --
She being Brand --
Memorabilia --
A man who had fallen among thieves --
Voices to voices, lip to lip --
"Next to of course god america i --
My sweet old etcetera --
Here's a little mouse) and --
In spite of everything --
Since feeling is first --
If i have made, my lady, intricate --
W {ViVa} (1931) --
I sing of Olaf glad and big --
If there are any heavens my mother will (all by herself) have --
A light Out) --
A clown s smirk in the skull of a baboon --
If i love You --
Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond --
But if a living dance upon dead minds --
No thanks (1935) --
Sonnet entitled how to run the world) --
May i feel said he --
Little joe gould has lost his teeth and doesn't know where --
Kumrads die because they're told) --
Conceive a man, should he have anything --
Here's to opening and upward, to leaf and to sap --
What a proud dreamhorse pulling (smoothloomingly) through --
Jehovah buried. Satan dead --
This mind made war --
Love's function is to fabricate unknownness --
Death (having lost) put on his universe --
New Poems {from Collected Poems} (1938) --
Kind) --
(Of Ever-Ever Land i speak --
This little bride & groom are --
My specialty is living said --
If i --
May my heart always be open to little --
You shall above all things be glad and young --
50 Poems (1940) --
Flotsam and jetsam --
Spoke joe to jack --
Red-rag and pink-flag --
Proud of his scientific attitude --
A pretty a day --
As freedom is a breakfastfood --
Anyone lived in a pretty how town --
My father moved through dooms of love --
I say no world --
These children singing in stone a --
Love is the every only god --
Love is more thicker than forget --
Hate blows a bubble of despair into --
What freedom's not some under's mere above --
1 x 1 {One Times One} (1944) --
Of all the blessings which to man --
A salesman is an it that stinks Excuse --
A politician is an arse upon --
Plato told --
Pity this busy monster, manunkind --
One's not half two. It's two are halves of one --
What if a much of a which of a wind --
No man, if men are gods; but if gods must --
When god decided to invent --
Rain or hail --
Let it go--the --
Nothing false and possible is love --
Except in your --
True lovers in each happening of their hearts --
Yes is a pleasant country --
All ignorance toboggans into know --
Darling! because my blood can sing --
"Sweet spring is your --
O by the by --
If everything happens that can't be done --
Xaipe (1950) --
When serpents bargain for the right to squirm --
If a cheerfulest Elephantangelchild should sit --
O to be in finland --
No time ago --
To start, to hesitate; to stop --
If (touched by love's own secret) we, like homing --
I thank You God for most this amazing --
The great advantage of being alive --
When faces called flowers float out of the ground --
Love our so right --
Now all the fingers of this tree (darling) have --
Luminous tendril of celestial wish.

Lyrical verses span the career of a twentieth-century American poet, and illuminate his concern for the future of humanity.