the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished
souls
by: e.e. cummings (1894-1962)
- HE Cambridge
ladies who live in furnished souls
- are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds
- (also, with the church's protestant blessings
- daughters,unscented shapeless spirited)
- they believe in Christ and Longfellow, both dead,
- are invariably interested in so many things--
- at the present writing one still finds
- delighted fingers knitting for the is it Poles?
- perhaps. While permanent faces coyly bandy
- scandal of Mrs. N and Professor D
- .... the Cambridge ladies do not care, above
- Cambridge if sometimes in its box of
- sky lavender and cornerless, the
- moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy
"the Cambridge ladies who live
in furnished souls" was originally published in Broom
(May 1922). |
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