E. E. Cummings(1894–1962)

since feeling is first

who pays any attention

to the syntax of things

will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool

while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,

and kisses are a better fate

than wisdom

lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry

—the best gesture of my brain is less than

your eyelids' flutter which says

2. "Jingo is both part of a mild oath and a reference to jingoism: extreme nationalism, especially as dem-

onstrated in a belligerent foreign policy.

we are for each other:then

laugh,leaning back in my arms

for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis