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by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962)

between green
Language: English 
between green
              mountains
sings the flinger
of

fire   beyond red rivers
of fair perpetual
feet the
sinuous

        riot

the
flashing
bacchant.

partedpetaled
mouth,face
delirious.   indivisible
grace

      of dancing

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Note: this poem entered the public domain in 2021.


Text Authorship:

  • by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in XLI Poems, in 1. Songs, no. 7, first published 1925 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Elliot Kaplan (b. 1931), "between green", published 1965 [ voice and piano ], from Six Etudes for Voice and Piano [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2022-04-04
Line count: 17
Word count: 28

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