Unsubscribe please ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 7:01 PM Subject: IRELAND Digest, Vol 2, Issue 463 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. "Christmas Tree" -- e. e. cummings (b. 1894 Cambridge, MA) > (Jean R.) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:29:09 -0800 > From: "Jean R." <[email protected]> > Subject: [IRELAND] "Christmas Tree" -- e. e. cummings (b. 1894 > Cambridge, MA) > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > CHRISTMAS TREE > > little tree > little silent Christmas tree > you are so little > you are more like a flower > > who found you in the green forest > and were you very sorry to come away? > see I will comfort you > because you smell so sweetly > > I will kiss your cool bark > and hug you safe and tight > just as your mother would, > only don't be afraid > > look the spangles > that sleep all the year in a dark box > dreaming of being taken out and allowed to shine, > the balls the chains red and gold the fluffy threads, > > put up your little arms > and i'll give them all to you to hold > every finger shall have its ring > and there won't be a single place dark or unhappy > > then when you are quite dressed > you'll stand in the window for everyone to see > and how they'll stare! > oh but you'll be very proud > > and my little sister and i will take hands > and looking up at our beautiful tree > we'll dance and sing > "Noel Noel" > > -- e. e. cummings > American poet Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962), renowned poet, painter, > and playwright, was born in Cambridge, MA, the son of a prominent Boston > clergyman and teacher. Cummings volunteered as an ambulance driver in WWI > and wrote his experiences in a detention camp, "The Enormous Room." > (1922). > Seeking a spontaneous and fresh presentation in his writing, he generally > disregarded grammar and punctuation, even in his own name - coined his own > words, ran words and sentences together. After their divorce, his first > wife > and daughter went to live in Ireland. Cummings always stressed > individualism. Some of his verses have been set to music and played in > various venues including Ireland. In Kilkenny the former Augustinian > Friary > played host to "A Wind Has Blown The Rain Away," an evening of e. e. > cummings songs with NY composer/pianist Ellen Mandel, accompanied by tenor > Toss Almond. The Queen's University, Belfast, has one of Cummings lines on > their website - "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the IRELAND list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the IRELAND mailing list, send an email to > [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of IRELAND Digest, Vol 2, Issue 463 > ***************************************