when gods let my body be
by: e.e. cummings (1894-1962)
- HEN god
lets my body be
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- From each brave eye shall sprout a tree
- fruit that dangles therefrom
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- the purpled world will dance upon
- Between my lips which did sing
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- a rose shall beget the spring
- that maidens whom passion wastes
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- will lay between their little breasts
- My strong fingers beneath the snow
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- Into strenuous birds shall go
- my love walking in the grass
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- their wings will touch with her face
- and all the while shall my heart be
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- With the bulge and nuzzle of the sea
"when gods let my body be"
was originally published in The Dial Vol. LXVIII, No.
1 (Jan. 1920). New York: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc. |
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