by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962)
who knows if the moon's a balloon Matches original text
Language: English
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
Note: this poem entered the public domain in 2021.
Composition:
- Set to music by Dominick Argento (1927 - 2019), "who knows if the moon's a balloon", from Songs about Spring, no. 1
Text Authorship:
- 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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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 78