O sweet spontaneous
by: e.e. cummings (1894-1962)
- sweet spontaneous
- earth how often have
- the
- doting
-
- fingers of
- prurient philosophers pinched
- and
- poked
-
- thee
- , has the naughty thumb
- of science prodded
- thy
-
- beauty, how
- often have religions taken
- thee upon their scraggy knees
- squeezing and
-
- buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive
- gods
- (but
- true
-
- to the incomparable
- couch of death thy
- rhythmic
- lover
-
- thou answerest
-
- them only with
-
- spring)
"O sweet spontaneous"
was originally published in The Dial Volume LXVIII, Number
5 (May 1920). New York: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc. |
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