who knows if the moon's a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky--filled with pretty people? (and if you and i should get into it,if they should take me and take you into their balloon, why then we'd go up higher with all the pretty people than houses and steeples and clouds: go sailing away and away sailing into a keen city which nobody's ever visited,where always it's Spring)and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves
Songs about Spring
Song Cycle by Dominick Argento (1927 - 2019)
1. who knows if the moon's a balloon  [sung text checked 1 time]
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- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in & [AND], in 2. N, in 1. &:Seven Poems, no. 7, first published 1925
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2. Spring is like a perhaps hand  [sung text checked 1 time]
Spring is like a perhaps hand [ ... ]
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- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.3. In Just‑spring  [sung text checked 1 time]
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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- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in Tulips and Chimneys, in 1. Tulips, in 2. Chansons innocentes, no. 1, first published 1920
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First published as "IV" in Five Poems, in The Dial, Volume 68 no. 5, May 1920, and in 1923 in Tulips and Chimneys.
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4. in Spring comes  [sung text checked 1 time]
in/ Spring comes (no [ ... ]
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- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), appears in XAIPE, first published 1950, copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.5. when faces called flowers float out of the ground  [sung text checked 1 time]
when faces called flowers float out of the ground [ ... ]
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- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), appears in XAIPE, first published 1950, copyright ©
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