“Tumbling-hair
picker of buttercups
violets
dandelions
And the big bullying daisies
through the field wonderful
with eyes a little sorry
Another comes
also picking flowers”

— E.E. Cummings

Source: Poems, 1905 1962

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American poet 1894–1962

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