query: What was E. E. Cummings' first published poem?
passage: E. E. Cummings
Following his autobiographical novel, The Enormous Room, Cummings' first published work was a collection of poems titled Tulips and Chimneys (1923). This work was the public's first encounter with his characteristic eccentric use of grammar and punctuation.
passage: Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
"Song" is a ballad-style poem, which was first published in "Tamerlane and Other Poems" in 1827, the speaker tells of a former love he saw from afar on her wedding day. A blush on her cheek, despite all the happiness around her, displays a hidden shame for having lost the speaker's love.