Etcetera The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings

, by Cummings, E. E.; Firmage, George James; Kennedy, Richard S.

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The poems in Etcetera were discovered in three Cummings manuscript collections and selected from more than 350 unpublished pieces. Many of the poems are from his early years and all convey his freshness and youthful spirit, exhibiting his celebration of love and delight in common natural phenomena. Etcetera was first published by Liveright in 1983. This newly reissued edition is published in a uniform format with Is 5, Tulips & Chimneys, ViVa, XAIPE, and No Thanks.

Introduction

xiii

Richard S. Kennedy

Note on the Text

(4)

George James Firmage

The Harvard Years, 1911-1916

Early

Semi-Spring

(1)

The Paper Palace

(1)

Night shall eat these girls and boys

(1)

Literary Tributes

Chaucer

(1)

Great Dante stands in Florence, looking down

(1)

Fame Speaks

(1)

Helen

(1)

Love Poems

I have looked upon thee---and I have loved thee

(1)

Reverie

(1)

Thy face is a still white house of holy things

(1)

What is thy mouth to me?

(1)

Dedication

(1)

I love you

(1)

After your poppied hair inaugurates

(1)

Moon-in-the-Trees

(1)

When thou art dead, dead, and far from the splendid sin

(1)

You are tired

(1)

Let us lie here in the disturbing grass

(1)

Friends

T.A.M

(1)

S.F.D

(1)

Softly from its still lair in Plympton Street

(1)

S.T

(1)

Late

They have hung the sky with arrows

(1)

A painted wind has sprung

(1)

You shall sing my songs, O earth

(1)

In Healey's Palace I was sitting---

(3)

Experiments with Typography, Spacing, and Sound, 1916-1917

The awful darkness of the town

(1)

A Girl's Ring

(1)

logeorge lo wellifitisn't eddy how's the boy

(1)

wee people dwelling

(1)

the sky

(1)

beyond the stolid iron pond

(1)

mr. smith

(1)

don't get me wrong oblivion

(2)

wanta

(1)

maker of many mouths

(4)

Reflections of the War, Paris, Imprisonment, New York, Peace, 1918

along the justexisting road to Roupy

(1)

through the tasteless minute efficient room

(1)

my deathly body's deadly lady

(1)

first she like a piece of ill-oiled

(1)

The moon falls thru the autumn Behind prisons she grins

(1)

The moon-lit snow is falling like strange candy into the big eyes of the

(1)

Perhaps it was Myself sits down in this chair. There were two chairs, in fact

(1)

Noise

(2)

a Woman of bronze

(1)

hips IOOsest OOping shoulders blonde& pastoral hair, strong

(1)

this cigarette is extremely long

(1)

love was---entire excellently steep

(4)

Poems Left with Elaine Orr, 1918-1919

let us suspect, cherie, this not very big

(1)

sometime, perhaps in Paris we will

(1)

cherie the very, picturesque, last Day

(1)

my little heart is so wonderfully sorry

(1)

the spring has been exquisite and the

(1)

willing pitifully to bewitch

(1)

my lady is an ivory garden

(2)

if you like my poems let them

(3)

Poems from the Dial Papers, 1919-1920

the comedian stands on a corner, the sky is

(1)

like most godhouses this particular house

(1)

This is the vase, Here

(1)

my humorous ghost precisely will

(2)

dawn

(1)

Above a between-the-acts prattling of

(1)

when time delicately is sponging sum after

(1)

sometimes i am alive because with

(1)

o my wholly unwise and definite

(1)

my youthful lady will have other lovers

(1)

lady you have written me a letter

(1)

but turning a corner, i

(1)

you said Is

(1)

as one who(having written

(2)

in front of your house i

(1)

Lady, i will touch you with my mind

(4)

Poems from the 1920s

the newly

(1)

now two old ladies sit peacefully knitting

100

(1)

``out of the pants which cover me

101

(1)

pound pound pound

102

(1)

2 shes

103

(2)

When parsing warmths of dusk construe

105

(1)

Lady, since your footstep

106

(1)

being(just a little)

107

(1)

Lady

108

(1)

III

The Rain is a Handsome Animal

109

(1)

After Seeing French Funeral

110

(1)

taxis toot whirl people moving perhaps laugh into the slowly

111

(1)

long ago, between a dream and a dream

112

(1)

them which despair

113

(1)

Paris, thou art not

114

(1)

Perfectly a year, we watched together les enfants jumping and

115

(2)

look

117

(1)

when of your eyes one smile entirely brings down

118

(1)

this fear is no longer dear. You are not going to America and

119

(1)

the other guineahen

120

(1)

love's absence is illusion, alias time

121

(1)

Float

122

(1)

birds meet above the new Moon

123

(1)

tonight the moon is round golden entire. It

124

(3)

Late Poems, 1930-1962

this (a up green hugestness who and climbs)

127

(1)

cont)-

128

(1)

mary green

129

(1)

lively and loathesome moe's respectably dead

130

(1)

``think of it:not so long ago''

131

(2)

out of bigg

133

(1)

the phonograph may(if it likes)be prophe

134

(1)

in hammamet did camping queers et al)

135

(1)

bud(spiggy nuvduh fienus

136

(1)

April`` this letter's dated ''23

137

(1)

come from his gal's

138

(1)

``she had that softness which is falsity''

139

(1)

says ol man no body---

140

(1)

I'm very fond of

141

(2)

devil crept in eden wood

143

(1)

III

love's the i guess most only verb that lives

144

(1)

love is a guess

145

(1)

we being not each other:without love

146

(1)

skies may be blue;yes

147

(1)

she, straddling my lap

148

(1)

n w

149

(1)

150

(1)

when (day's amazing murder with) perhaps

151

(1)

there are so many tictoc

152

(1)

time, be kind;herself and i

153

(1)

Us if therefore must forget ourselves)

154

(1)

now winging selves sing sweetly, while ghosts(there

155

(1)

every one of the red roses opened

156

(1)

ringed

157

(2)

G ra D ua

159

(1)

ance)danc

160

(1)

Cri C

161

(2)

leastlessly

163

(1)

164

(1)

rainsweet

165

(1)

life shuts &(opens the world

166

(1)

like a little bear twilight

167

(1)

Ballade

168

(1)

for him alone life's worse than worst

169

(1)

all stars are(and not one star only)love

170

(1)

should far this from mankind's unmysteries

171

(1)

thing no is(of

172

(1)

should this fool die

173

(99)

Appendices

A From the Poet's First Collection, 1904-1905

Dedicated to Dear Nana Clarke

177

(1)

As rooms are separated by a curtain

177

(1)

Our Flag

178

(1)

God

179

(1)

The River of Mist

180

(1)

B From the Cambridge Latin School Years, 1908-1911

The world is very big, and we

181

(1)

A chilly, murky night;

182

(1)

The Passing of the Year

183

(1)

Early Summer Sketch

184

(2)

Summer Song

186

(1)

187

(1)

The Eagle

188

(2)

The Boy and The Man

190

(1)

God, Thine the hand that doth extend

191

(1)

My Prayer

192

(1)

On souls robbed of their birth-right's better part

193

(1)

Death's Chimneys

194

(1)

After-Glow

195

(2)

C Translations from Horace, 1913

Farewell, runaway snows! For the meadow is green, and the tree stands

197

(1)

The fetters of winter are shattered, shattered

198

(1)

Ah, Postumus, fleet-footed are the years!

199

(2)

Who chides the tears that weep so dear a head?

201

(1)

O, blessed of the gods

202

(5)

Uncollected Poems

Note on the Text

207

(65)

George James Firmage

To William F. Bradbury

209

(1)

The coming of May

210

(1)

Ballad of the Scholar's Lament

211

(1)

Skating

212

(1)

Metamorphosis

213

(1)

Vision

214

(1)

Mist

215

(1)

Water-Lilies

216

(1)

Music

217

(1)

Summer Silence

218

(1)

Sunset

219

(1)

Ballade

220

(2)

Sonnet (A rain-drop on the eyelids of the earth,)

222

(1)

Sonnet (Long since, the flicker brushed with shameless wing)

223

(1)

Do you remember when the fluttering dusk

224

(1)

Nocturne

225

(2)

Sonnet (For that I have forgot the world these days,)

227

(1)

Night

228

(1)

Sonnet (No sunset, but a grey, great, struggling sky)

229

(1)

Longing

230

(2)

Ballad of Love

232

(2)

Ballade of Soul

234

(2)

Sapphics

236

(1)

Sonnet (I dreamed I was among the conquerors,)

237

(1)

Hokku

238

(1)

Belgium

239

(1)

W.H.W., Jr

240

(1)

Finis

241

(1)

because

242

(1)

if(you are i why certainly

243

(1)

The Red Front, translation of Front Rouge

244

(22)

Louis Aragon

Ballad of an Intellectual

266

(3)

american critic ad 1935

269

(1)

guilt is the cause of more disauders

270

(1)

Marianne Moore

271

(1)

Doveglion

272

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