73 Poems

by Cummings, E. E.; Firmage, George James

• ISBN13: 9780871401830
• ISBN10: 0871401835
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-17
• Publisher: Liveright

Summary

Four months after Cummings's death in September 1962, his widow, the photographer Marion Morehouse, collected the typescripts of 29 new poems. These poems, as well as uncollected poems published only in periodicals up to that time, make up 73 Poems . This is the final volume in Liveright's reissue of Cummings's individual volumes of poetry, with texts and settings based on E. E. Cummings: The Complete Poems 1904-1962 .

Table of Contents

1 O the sun comes up-up-up in the opening	11	(1)
2 for any ruffian of the sky	12	(1)
3 seeker of truth	13	(1)
4 SONG	14	(2)
5 the first of all my dreams was of	16	(1)
6 fair ladies tall lovers	17	(1)
7 it's	18	(2)
8 plant Magic dust	20	(1)
9 now is a ship	21	(1)
10 because it's	22	(1)
11 humble one(gifted with	23	(1)
12 Me up at does	24	(1)
13 O	25	(1)
14 a great	26	(1)
15 at just 5 a	27	(1)
16 e	28	(1)
17 n	29	(1)
18 nobody could in superhuman flights	30	(1)
19 everybody happy?	31	(1)
20 fearlessandbosomy	32	(1)
21 why	33	(1)
22 annie died the other day	34	(1)
23 nite)	35	(1)
24 insu nli gh t	36	(1)
25 a grin without a	37	(1)
26 if seventy were young	38	(1)
27 in heavenly realms of hellas dwelt	39	(2)
28 "right here the other night something	41	(1)
29 the greedy the people	42	(1)
30 one winter afternoon	43	(2)
31 POEM(or	45	(1)
32 all which isn't singing is mere talking	46	(1)
33 christ but they're few	47	(1)
34 "nothing" the unjust man complained	48	(1)
35 the trick of finding what you didn't lose	49	(1)
36 if in beginning twilight of winter will stand	50	(1)
37 now that,more nearest even than your fate	51	(1)
38 silently if,out of not knowable	52	(1)
39 white guardians of the universe of sleep	53	(1)
40 your homecoming will be my homecoming-	54	(1)
41 a round face near the top of the stairs	55	(1)
42 n	56	(1)
43 may i be gay	57	(1)
44 Now i lay(with everywhere around)	58	(1)
45 what time is it?it is by every star	59	(1)
46 out of midsummer's blazing most not night	60	(1)
47 without the mercy of	61	(1)
48 t,h;r:u;s,h;ea	62	(1)
49 faithfully tinying at twilight voice	63	(1)
50 while a once world slips from	64	(1)
51 but	65	(1)
52 who are you,little i	66	(1)
53 of all things under our	67	(1)
54 timeless	68	(1)
55 i	69	(1)
56 "could that" i marvelled "be	70	(1)
57 mi(dreamlike)st	71	(1)
58 &sun&	72	(1)
59 who is this	73	(1)
60 2 little whos	74	(1)
61 one	75	(1)
62 now does our world descend	76	(1)
63 (listen)	77	(2)
64 "o purple finch please tell me why	79	(1)
65 "though your sorrows not	80	(1)
66 D-re-A-mi-N-gl-Y	81	(1)
67 enter no(silence is the blood whose flesh	82	(1)
68 what is	83	(2)
69 !hope	85	(2)
70 pity his how illimitable plight	87	(1)
71 how many moments must(amazing each	88	(1)
72 wild(at our first)beasts uttered human words	89	(1)
73 all worlds have halfsight,seeing either with	90	(1)
Afterword by George James Firmage	91