E.E. Cummings is without question one of the major poets of this century, and this volume, first published in 1959, is indispensable for every lover of modern lyrical verse. It contains one hundred of Cummings’s wittiest and most profound poems, harvested from thirty-five of the most radically creative years in contemporary American poetry. These poems exhibit all the extraordinary lyricism, playfulness, technical ingenuity, and compassion for which Cummings is famous. They demonstrate beautifully his extrapolations from traditional poetic structures and his departures from them, as well as the unique synthesis of lavish imagery and acute artistic precision that has won him the adulation and respect of critics and poetry lovers everywhere.

Tulips and Chimneys (1923)
Thy fingers make early flowers of	p. 1
All in green went my love riding	p. 2
When god lets my body be	p. 4
In Just--	p. 5
O sweet spontaneous	p. 6
Buffalo Bill's	p. 7
The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls	p. 8
It may not always be so; and i say	p. 9
& {And} (1925)
Suppose	p. 10
Raise the shade	p. 11
Here is little Effie's head	p. 12
Spring is like a perhaps hand	p. 14
Who knows if the moon's	p. 15
I like my body when it is with your	p. 16
XLI Poems (1925)
Little tree	p. 17
Humanity i love you	p. 18
Is 5 (1926)
Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal	p. 19
Nobody loses all the time	p. 21
Mr youse needn't be so spry	p. 23
She being Brand	p. 24
Memorabilia	p. 26
A man who had fallen among thieves	p. 28
Voices to voices, lip to lip	p. 29
"Next to of course god america i	p. 31
My sweet old etcetera	p. 32
Here's a little mouse) and	p. 33
In spite of everything	p. 34
Since feeling is first	p. 35
If i have made, my lady, intricate	p. 36
W {ViVa} (1931)
I sing of Olaf glad and big	p. 37
If there are any heavens my mother will (all by herself) have	p. 39
A light Out)	p. 40
A clown s smirk in the skull of a baboon	p. 41
If i love You	p. 43
Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond	p. 44
But if a living dance upon dead minds	p. 45
No thanks (1935)
Sonnet entitled how to run the world)	p. 46
May i feel said he	p. 47
Little joe gould has lost his teeth and doesn't know where	p. 48
Kumrads die because they're told)	p. 49
Conceive a man, should he have anything	p. 50
Here's to opening and upward, to leaf and to sap	p. 51
What a proud dreamhorse pulling (smoothloomingly) through	p. 52
Jehovah buried. Satan dead	p. 53
This mind made war	p. 54
Love's function is to fabricate unknownness	p. 57
Death (having lost) put on his universe	p. 58
New Poems {from Collected Poems} (1938)
Kind)	p. 59
(Of Ever-Ever Land i speak	p. 61
This little bride & groom are	p. 62
My specialty is living said	p. 63
If i	p. 64
May my heart always be open to little	p. 65
You shall above all things be glad and young	p. 66
50 Poems (1940)
Flotsam and jetsam	p. 67
Spoke joe to jack	p. 68
Red-rag and pink-flag	p. 69
Proud of his scientific attitude	p. 70
A pretty a day	p. 71
As freedom is a breakfastfood	p. 72
Anyone lived in a pretty how town	p. 73
My father moved through dooms of love	p. 75
I say no world	p. 78
These children singing in stone a	p. 80
Love is the every only god	p. 81
Love is more thicker than forget	p. 82
Hate blows a bubble of despair into	p. 83
What freedom's not some under's mere above	p. 84
1 x 1 {One Times One} (1944)
Of all the blessings which to man	p. 85
A salesman is an it that stinks Excuse	p. 86
A politician is an arse upon	p. 87
Plato told	p. 88
Pity this busy monster, manunkind	p. 89
One's not half two. It's two are halves of one	p. 90
What if a much of a which of a wind	p. 91
No man, if men are gods; but if gods must	p. 92
When god decided to invent	p. 93
Rain or hail	p. 94
Let it go--the	p. 96
Nothing false and possible is love	p. 97
Except in your	p. 98
True lovers in each happening of their hearts	p. 100
Yes is a pleasant country	p. 101
All ignorance toboggans into know	p. 102
Darling! because my blood can sing	p. 103
"Sweet spring is your	p. 104
O by the by	p. 105
If everything happens that can't be done	p. 106
Xaipe (1950)
When serpents bargain for the right to squirm	p. 108
If a cheerfulest Elephantangelchild should sit	p. 109
O to be in finland	p. 110
No time ago	p. 111
To start, to hesitate; to stop	p. 112
If (touched by love's own secret) we, like homing	p. 113
I thank You God for most this amazing	p. 114
The great advantage of being alive	p. 115
When faces called flowers float out of the ground	p. 116
Love our so right	p. 117
Now all the fingers of this tree (darling) have	p. 118
Luminous tendril of celestial wish	p. 119
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