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       E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)

First Line:     You are tired,

While written between 1911 and 1916, this poem was not published during his lifetime. As such it is protected by copyright and cannot be displayed without permission of the copyright holder.

It can be found, for example, in:

  • Cummings, E.E. Etcetera: the unpublished poems of E.E. Cummings. George James Firmage and Richard S. Kennedy, eds. New York: Liveright, 1983.

    Cummings was awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1957.