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diff --git a/old/67384-0.txt b/old/67384-0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 41b02e4..0000000 --- a/old/67384-0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,758 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg eBook of Puella mea, by E. E. Cummings - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Puella mea - -Author: E. E. Cummings - -Artists: Paul Klee - Pablo Picasso - Amedeo Modigliani - Kurt Roesch - -Release Date: February 12, 2022 [eBook #67384] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Charlene Taylor, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was - produced from images generously made available by The - Internet Archive) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUELLA MEA *** - - - - - -[Transcriber's Note: Idiosyncrasies of spelling, punctuation, and -capitalization have been retained as they appear in the original.] - - - - -[Illustration] - -PUELLA MEA - - -BY E.E. CUMMINGS - -[Illustration] - - -COPYRIGHT MCMXXIII BY E E CUMMINGS PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF -AMERICA - - -[Illustration] - - Harun Omar and Master Hafiz - keep your dead beautiful ladies. - Mine is a little lovelier - than any of your ladies were. - - In her perfectest array - my lady, moving in the day, - is a little stranger thing - than crisp Sheba with her king - in the morning wandering. - -[Illustration] - - Through the young and awkward hours - my lady perfectly moving, - through the new world scarce astir - my fragile lady wandering - in whose perishable poise - is the mystery of Spring - (with her beauty more than snow - dexterous and fugitive - my very frail lady drifting - distinctly, moving like a myth - in the uncertain morning, with - April feet like sudden flowers - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - - and all her body filled with May) - —moving in the unskilful day - my lady utterly alive, - to me is a more curious thing - (a thing more nimble and complete) - than ever to Judea’s king - were the shapely sharp cunning - and withal delirious feet - of the Princess Salome - carefully dancing in the noise - of Herod’s silence, long ago. - - If she a little turn her head - i know that i am wholly dead: - nor ever did on such a throat - the lips of Tristram slowly dote, - La beale Isoud whose leman was. - And if my lady look at me - (with her eyes which like two elves - incredibly amuse themselves) - with a look of færie, - perhaps a little suddenly - (as sometimes the improbable - beauty of my lady will) - —at her glance my spirit shies - rearing (as in the miracle - of a lady who had eyes - which the king’s horses might not kill.) - -[Illustration] - - But should my lady smile, it were - a flower of so pure surprise - (it were so very new a flower, - a flower so frail, a flower so glad) - as trembling used to yield with dew - when the world was young and new - (a flower such as the world had - in Springtime when the world was mad - and Launcelot spoke to Guenever, - a flower which most heavy hung - with silence when the world was young - and Diarmid looked in Grania’s eyes.) - But should my lady’s beauty play - at not speaking (somtimes as - it will) the silence of her face - doth immediately make - in my heart so great a noise, - as in the sharp and thirsty blood - of Paris would not all the Troys - of Helen’s beauty: never did - Lord Jason (in impossible things - victorious impossibly) - so wholly burn, to undertake - Medea’s rescuing eyes; nor he - when swooned the white egyptian day - who with Egypt’s body lay. - -[Illustration] - - Lovely as those ladies were - mine is a little lovelier. - - And if she speak in her frail way, - it is wholly to bewitch - my smallest thought with a most swift - radiance wherein slowly drift - murmurous things divinely bright; - it is foolingly to smite - my spirit with the lithe free twitch - of scintillant space, with the cool writhe - of gloom truly which syncopate - some sunbeam’s skilful fingerings; - it is utterly to lull - with foliate inscrutable - sweetness my soul obedient; - it is to stroke my being with - numbing forests frolicsome, - fleetly mystical, aroam - with keen creatures of idiom - (beings alert and innocent - very deftly upon which - indolent miracles impinge) - —it is distinctly to confute - my reason with the deep caress - of every most shy thing and mute, - it is to quell me with the twinge - of all living intense things. - - Never my soul so fortunate - is (past the luck of all dead men - and loving) as invisibly when - upon her palpable solitude - a furtive occult fragrance steals, - a gesture of immaculate - perfume—whereby (with fear aglow) - my soul is wont wholly to know - the poignant instantaneous fern - whose scrupulous enchanted fronds - toward all things intrinsic yearn, - the immanent subliminal - fern of her delicious voice - (of her voice which always dwells - beside the vivid magical - impetuous and utter ponds - of dream; and very secret food - its leaves inimitable find - beyond the white authentic springs, - beyond the sweet instinctive wells, - which make to flourish the minute - spontaneous meadow of her mind) - —the vocal fern, always which feels - the keen ecstatic actual tread - (and thereto perfectly responds) - of all things exquisite and dead, - all living things and beautiful. - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - - (Caliph and king their ladies had - to love them and to make them glad, - when the world was young and mad, - in the city of Bagdad— - mine is a little lovelier - than any of those ladies were.) - - Her body is most beauteous, - being for all things amorous - fashioned very curiously - of roses and of ivory. - The immaculate crisp head - is such as only certain dead - and careful painters love to use - for their youngest angels (whose - praising bodies in a row - between slow glories fleetly go.) - Upon a keen and lovely throat - the strangeness of her face doth float, - which in eyes and lips consists - —always upon the mouth there trysts - curvingly a fragile smile - which like a flower lieth (while - within the eyes is dimly heard - a wistful and precarious bird.) - -[Illustration] - - Springing from fragrant shoulders small, - ardent, and perfectly withal - smooth to stroke and sweet to see - as a supple and young tree, - her slim lascivious arms alight - in skilful wrists which hint at flight - —my lady’s very singular - and slenderest hands moreover are - (which as lilies smile and quail) - of all things perfect the most frail. - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - - (Whoso rideth in the tale - of Chaucer knoweth many a pair - of companions blithe and fair; - who to walk with Master Gower - in Confessio doth prefer - shall not lack for beauty there, - nor he that will amaying go - with my lord Boccaccio— - whoso knocketh at the door - of Marie and of Maleore - findeth of ladies goodly store - whose beauty did in nothing err. - If to me there shall appear - than a rose more sweetly known, - more silently than a flower, - my lady naked in her hair— - i for those ladies nothing care - nor any lady dead and gone.) - - Each tapering breast is firm and smooth - that in a lovely fashion doth - from my lady’s body grow; - as morning may a lily know, - her petaled flesh doth entertain - the adroit blood’s mysterious skein - (but like some passionate earlier - flower, the snow will oft utter, - whereof the year has perfect bliss— - for each breast a blossom is, - which being a little while caressed - its fragrance makes the lover blest.) - Her waist is a most tiny hinge - of flesh, a winsome thing and strange; - apt in my hand warmly to lie - it is a throbbing neck whereby - to grasp the belly’s ample vase - (that urgent urn which doth amass - for whoso drinks, a dizzier wine - than should the grapes of heaven combine - with earth’s madness)—’tis a gate - unto a palace intricate - (whereof the luscious pillars rise - which are her large and shapely thighs) - in whose dome the trembling bliss - of a kingdom wholly is. - - Beneath her thighs such legs are seen - as were the pride of the world’s queen: - each is a verb, miraculous - inflected oral devious, - beneath the body’s breathing noun - (moreover the delicious frown - of the grave great sensual knees - well might any monarch please.) - Each ankle is divinely shy; - as if for fear you would espy - the little distinct foot (if whose - very minuteness doth abuse - reason, why then the artificer - did most exquisitely err.) - -[Illustration] - - When the world was like a song - heard behind a golden door, - poet and sage and caliph had - to love them and to make them glad - ladies with lithe eyes and long - (when the world was like a flower - Omar Hafiz and Harun - loved their ladies in the moon) - —fashioned very curiously - of roses and of ivory - if naked she appear to me - my flesh is an enchanted tree; - with her lips’ most frail parting - my body hears the cry of Spring, - and with their frailest syllable - its leaves go crisp with miracle. - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - - Love!—maker of my lady, - in that alway beyond this - poem or any poem she - of whose body words are afraid - perfectly beautiful is, - forgive these words which i have made. - And never boast your dead beauties, - you greatest lovers in the world! - who with Grania strangely fled, - who with Egypt went to bed, - whom white-thighed Semiramis - put up her mouth to wholly kiss— - never boast your dead beauties, - mine being unto me sweeter - (of whose shy delicious glance - things which never more shall be, - perfect things of færie, - are intense inhabitants; - in whose warm superlative - body do distinctly live - all sweet cities passed away— - in her flesh at break of day - are the smells of Nineveh, - in her eyes when day is gone - are the cries of Babylon.) - Diarmid Paris and Solomon, - Omar Harun and Master Hafiz, - to me your ladies are all one— - keep your dead beautiful ladies. - -[Illustration] - - Eater of all things lovely—Time! - upon whose watering lips the world - poises a moment (futile, proud, - a costly morsel of sweet tears) - gesticulates, and disappears— - of all dainties which do crowd - gaily upon oblivion - sweeter than any there is one; - to touch it is the fear of rhyme— - in life’s very fragile hour - (when the world was like a tale - made of laughter and of dew, - was a flight, a flower, a flame, - was a tendril fleetly curled - upon frailness) used to stroll - (very slowly) one or two - ladies like flowers made, - softly used to wholly move - slender ladies made of dream - (in the lazy world and new - sweetly used to laugh and love - ladies with crisp eyes and frail, - in the city of Bagdad.) - - Keep your dead beautiful ladies - Harun Omar and Master Hafiz. - - -[Illustration] - -This edition of E.E. Cummings’ Puella Mea with reproductions of -drawings and paintings by Klee is made possible through the kind -permission of Curt Valentin of Buchholz Gallery. The Modigliani drawing -is used by the courtesy of his publishers, in Milan, Italy. For the -drawing by Picasso thanks are due to Mary Callery, who consented to its -use. Kurt Roesch contributed his drawing which is the only illustration -expressly made for this book when it was decided to have work by other -modern masters in addition to the one drawing by the author himself, -which appears on the first text page of his poem. - - -S.A. 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