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E. E. Cummings

Edward Estlin Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 14, 1894. He...
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		Poems about Innocence
		A List of Praises by Anne Porter

		A Prayer for my Daughter by W. B. Yeats

		Auguries of Innocence by William Blake

		Holy Innocents by Christina Rossetti

		Ontario by Mark Levine

		Part of Eve's Discussion by Marie Howe

		The Double Truth by Chard deNiord

		The Myth of Innocence by Louise Glück

		Spring
		Endymion, Book I, [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever] by John Keats

		A Blessing by James Wright

		Alcove by John Ashbery

		Another Attempt at Rescue by M. L. Smoker

		Birds Again by Jim Harrison

		Black Petal by Li-Young Lee

		Butterfly Catcher by Tina Cane

		City That Does Not Sleep by Federico García Lorca

		Diary [Surface] by Rachel Zucker

		Each year by Dora Malech

		Equinox by Joy Harjo

		From you have I been absent in the spring... (Sonnet 98) by William Shakespeare

		If a Wilderness by Carl Phillips

		In cold spring air by Reginald Gibbons

		In the Memphis Airport by Timothy Steele

		Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth

		Morning News by Marilyn Hacker

		National Poetry Month by Elaine Equi

		Prologue of the Earthly Paradise by William Morris

		Song On May Morning by John Milton

		Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins

		Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital] by William Carlos Williams

		Spring Day [Bath] by Amy Lowell

		Spring in New Hampshire by Claude McKay

		Spring is like a perhaps hand by E. E. Cummings

		spring love noise and all [excerpt] by David Antin

		Spring Snow by Arthur Sze

		Springing by Marie Ponsot

		The Enkindled Spring by D. H. Lawrence

		[O were my love yon Lilac fair] by Robert Burns

Chansons Innocentes: I
by E. E. Cummings

in Just- spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee and eddieandbill come running from marbles and piracies and it's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful the queer old balloonman whistles far and wee and bettyandisbel come dancing from hop-scotch and jump-rope and it's spring and the goat-footed balloonMan whistles far and wee
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From Complete Poems: 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage. Used with the permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation. Copyright © 1923, 1931, 1935, 1940, 1951, 1959, 1963, 1968, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust. Copyright © 1976, 1978, 1979 by George James Firmage.