by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962)
notice the convulsed orange inch of moon
Language: English
notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening. We'll choose the way to the forest -- no offense to you, white town whose spires softly dare. Will take the houseless wisping rune of road lazily carved on sharpening air. Fields lying miraculous in violent silence fill with microscopic whithering ...(that's the Black People, chérie, who live under stones.) Don't be afraid and we will pass the simple ugliness of exact tombs,where a large road crosses and all the people are minutely dead. Then you will slowly kiss me
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Text Authorship:
- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in Tulips and Chimneys, in 2. Chimneys, in 3. Sonnets - Actualities, no. 5, first published 1923 [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- by Jeffrey Thomas King , "notice the moon", 1965 [ SATB chorus and piano ], unpublished [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2010-01-22
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