Buffalo Bill 's defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death
Three Settings of E. E. Cummings
Song Cycle by James Yannatos (1929 - 2011)
?. Buffalo Bill's  [sung text not yet checked]
Authorship:
- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in Tulips and Chimneys, in 1. Tulips, in 7. Portraits, no. 8, first published 1920
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Confirmed with E. E. Cummings, Tulips and Chimneys, New York: Liveright, 1976, page 85.
First published as "III" in Seven Poems, in The Dial, Vol. 68 no. 1, January 1920Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]
?. the rose  [sung text not yet checked]
the rose is dying the lips of an old man murder the petals hush mysteriously invisible mourners move with prose faces and sobbing,garments The symbol of the rose motionless with grieving feet and wings mounts against the margins of steep song a stallion swetneess ,the lips of an old man murder the petals.
Authorship:
- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in Tulips and Chimneys, in 1. Tulips, in 7. Portraits, no. 7, first published 1923
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]?. In Just‑  [sung text not yet checked]
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
Authorship:
- 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.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]