Notes
1] Cummings wrote this poem for Elaine Thayer (Richard F. Kennedy, in Dreams in the Mirror: A Biography of E. E. Cummings [New York: Liveright, 1980]: 194-95).
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Original text: Complete Poems 1904-1962 (New York: Liveright, 1991): 218. PS 3505.U334A17 1991 Robarts Library. Previously published in "Sonnets Actualities XXIV," & (New York: privately printed, 1925): 116. Firmage A4a, Berg Collection, New York Public Library
First publication date:
14
February
1925
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 2000, revised 2006
Recent editing: 2:2006/2/1*1:2006/3/16
Form: sonnet
Rhyme: unrhyming