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Secular or Eclectic
20th Century

About e. e. cummings

Timeline (1894 - 1962)

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Original Language
English

i am a little church(no great cathedral)

Themes
  Birth, Rebirth
  Bliss
  Death
  Eternal Life
  Garden

 

Recommended Books

1 x 1 [One Times One], by e. e. cummings
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Chaire, by e. e. cummings

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i am a little church(no great cathedral)
far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities
-i do not worry if briefer days grow briefest,
i am not sorry when sun and rain make april
 
my life is the life of the reaper and the sower;
my prayers are prayers of earth's own clumsily striving
(finding and losing and laughing and crying)children
whose any sadness or joy is my grief or my gladness
 
around me surges a miracle of unceasing
birth and glory and death and resurrection:
over my sleeping self float flaming symbols
of hope,and i wake to a perfect patience of mountains
 
i am a little church(far from the frantic
world with its rapture and anguish)at peace with nature
-i do not worry if longer nights grow longest;
i am not sorry when silence becomes singing
 
winter by spring,i lift my diminutive spire to
merciful Him Whose only now is forever:
standing erect in the deathless truth of His presence
(welcoming humbly His light and proudly His darkness)

 

 

 

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