it may not always be so;and i say that if your lips,which i have loved,should touch another's,and your dear strong fingers clutch his heart,as mine in time not far away; if on another's face your sweet hair lay in such a silence as i know,or such great writhing words as,uttering overmuch, stand helplessly before the spirit at bay; if this should be,i say if this should be-- you of my heart,send me a little word; that i may go unto him,and take his hands, saying,Accept all happiness from me. Then shall i turn my face,and hear one bird sing terribly afar in the lost lands.
e. e. cummings songs:
Song Cycle by Regina A. Harris Baiocchi (b. 1956)
1. little word  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in Tulips and Chimneys, in 2. Chimneys, in 2. Sonnets - Unrealities, no. 1, first published 1917
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Confirmed with E. E. Cummings, Tulips and Chimneys, New York: Liveright, 1976, page 140.
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2. brain gesture  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves and kisses are a better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry —the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids’ flutter which says we are for each other: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life’s not a paragraph and death i think is no parenthesis
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- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962)
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Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]5. love‑crumbs  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones,and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i will again and again and again kiss, i like kissing this and that of you, i like, slowly stroking the,shocking fuzz of your electric furr,and what-is-it comes over parting flesh….And eyes big love-crumbs, and possibly i like the thrill of under me you so quite new
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- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962)
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Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]6. i carry your heart with me  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, copyright © 1952 by E. E. Cummings
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