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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: eliot, thomas Matches Found: 144 Eliot, Thomas Stearns Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. 144 poems available by this author A COOKING EGG Poem Text First Line: Pipit sate upright in her chair Last Line: Droop in a hundred a.B.C.'s Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A SONG FOR SIMEON Poem Text First Line: Lord, the roman hyacinths are blooming in bowls and Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology AD-DRESSING OF CATS First Line: You've read of several kinds of cat Last Line: And there's how you ad-dress a cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats AFTERNOON First Line: The ladies who are interested in assyrian art Last Line: Towards the unconscous, the ineffable, the absolute Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums AIR OF PALESTINE, NO. 2 First Line: God from a cloud to spender spoke Last Line: Thanks to the westminster gazette Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Magazines; Spender, John Alfred (1862-1942) ASH WEDNESDAY First Line: Because I do not hope to turn again Last Line: Suffer me not to be separated %and let my cry come unto thee AT GRADUATION 1905 First Line: Standing upon the shore of all we know AUNT HELEN Poem Text First Line: Miss helen slingsby was my maiden aunt Last Line: Who had always been so careful while her mistress lived. BACCHUS AND ARIADNE; 2ND DEBATE BETWEEN THE BODY AND SOUL First Line: I saw their lives curl upward like a wave Last Line: I am sure it is this %I am sure Subject(s): Ariadne; Bacchus; Bodies; Mythology - Classical; Soul BATTLE OF THE PEKES AND THE POLLICLES First Line: The pekes and the pollicles, everyone knows Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BURBANK WITH A BAEDEKER: BLEISTEIN WITH A CIGAR Poem Text First Line: Burbank crossed a little bridge Last Line: Time's ruins, and the seven laws. BURNT DANCER First Line: Within the yellow ring of flame Last Line: O broken guest that may return not %o danse danse mon papillon noir! Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Moths BUSTOPHER JONES: THE CAT ABOUT TOWN First Line: Bustopher jones is not skin and bones Last Line: It must and it shall be spring in pall mall %while bustopher jones wears his white spats! Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT MORGAN INTRODUCES HIMSELF First Line: I once was a pirate what sailed the 'igh seas Last Line: If jist you make friends with the cat at the door Subject(s): Animals; Cats CHORUSES FROM THE ROCK First Line: The eagle soars in the summit of heaven Last Line: Bring us farther from god and nearer to the dust Subject(s): Christianity CINVICTIONS (CURTAIN RAISER) First Line: Among my marionettes I find Last Line: Have these keen moments every day CONVERSATION GALANTE Poem Text First Line: I observe: 'our sentimental friend the moon!' Last Line: "and -- ""are we then so serious?" COUSIN NANCY Poem Text First Line: Miss nancy ellicott Last Line: The army of unalterable law. Subject(s): Girls; Modern Life CULTIVATION OF CHRISTMAS TREES First Line: There are several attitudes towards christmas Subject(s): Holidays DEATH BY WATER First Line: Phlebas the phoenician, a fortnight dead Last Line: Consider phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you DEDICATION TO MY WIFE First Line: To whom I owe the leaping delight Last Line: These are private words addressed to you in public Subject(s): Love DIFFICULTIES OF A STATESMAN First Line: Cry what shall I cry? DO I KNOW HOW I FEEL? DO I KNOW WHAT I THINK? Last Line: I do not know what, after, and I do not care either Subject(s): Thought EASTER: SENSATIONS OF APRIL (1) First Line: The little negro girl who lives across the alley Last Line: Brings a geranium from sunday school Subject(s): Easter; Holidays EASTER: SENSATIONS OF APRIL (2) First Line: Daffodils %long yellow sunlight fills Last Line: Irritate the imagination %or the nerves Subject(s): Daffodils; Easter; Holidays ENGINE First Line: The engine hammered and hummed. Flat faces of american business men Last Line: The machine recommence, and then the music, and the feet upon the deck Subject(s): Machinery And Machinists ENTRETIEN DANS UN PARC First Line: [was it a morning or an afternoon Last Line: But then, what opening out of dusty souls! EYES THAT LAST I SAW IN TEARS FIRST CAPRICE IN NORTH CAMBRIDGE First Line: A street-piano, garrulous and frail Last Line: Oh, these minor considerations! Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts FIRST DEBATE BETWEEN THE BODY AND SOUL First Line: The august wind is shambling down the street Last Line: The withered leaves %of our sensations Subject(s): Bodies; Soul FIVE-FINGER EXERCISE, SELS. FOUR QUARTETS: BURNT NORTON Poem Text First Line: Time present and time past Last Line: Stretching before and after. Subject(s): Time FOUR QUARTETS: EAST COKER First Line: In my beginning is my end. In succession Last Line: Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning FOUR QUARTETS: LITTLE GIDDING (1-5 COMPLETE) Poem Text First Line: Midwinter spring is its own season Variant Title(s): Little Gidding Subject(s): Flowers; History; Perseverance; Roses; Self; Time; Winter; Historians FOUR QUARTETS: LITTLE GIDDING (1-5 COMPLETE) First Line: Midwinter spring is its own season Last Line: Into the crowded knot of fire %and the fire and the rose are one Variant Title(s): Little Giddin Subject(s): Flowers; History; Perseverance; Roses; Self; Time; Winter FOUR QUARTETS: LITTLE GIDDING: 2 First Line: Ash on an old man's sleeve Last Line: And faded on the blowing of the horn FOUR QUARTETS: LITTLE GIDDING: 3 First Line: There are three conditions which often look alike Last Line: By the purification of the motive %in the ground of our beseeching FOUR QUARTETS: LITTLE GIDDING: 4 First Line: The dove descending breaks the air Last Line: We only live, only suspire %consumed by either fire or fire FOUR QUARTETS: LITTLE GIDDING: 5 First Line: What we call the beginning is often the end Last Line: Into the crowned knot of fire %and the fire and the rose are one FOUR QUARTETS: THE DRY SALVAGES (1-5 COMPLETE) First Line: The river is within us, the sea is all about us Last Line: The life of significant soil Subject(s): Sea FOUR QUARTETS: THE DRY SALVAGES: 2 First Line: Where is there an end of it, the soundless wailing FOUR QUARTETS: THE DRY SALVAGES: 4 First Line: Lady, whose shrine stands on the promontory Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible FOURTH CAPRICE IN MONTPARNASSE First Line: We turn the corner of the street Last Line: But why are we so hard to please? Subject(s): Montparnasse, Paris FOX AND THE GRAPES First Line: A fox of gascon, though some say of norman descent Subject(s): Animals GERONTION Poem Text Recitation First Line: Here I am, an old man in a dry month Last Line: Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cowardice; Decay; Emptiness; Old Age; Estrangement; Outcasts; Rot; Decadence GOLDFISH (ESSENCE OF SUMMER MAGAZINES): 1 First Line: Always the august evenings come Last Line: Of our marionettes %inconsequent, intolerable Subject(s): Leisure; Summer GOLDFISH (ESSENCE OF SUMMER MAGAZINES): 2. EMBARQUEMENT POUR CYTHERE First Line: Ladies, the moon is on its way! Last Line: Philosophy through a paper straw Subject(s): Leisure; Summer; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) GOLDFISH (ESSENCE OF SUMMER MAGAZINES): 3 First Line: On every sultry afternoon Last Line: Bays %and rose Subject(s): Leisure; Summer GOLDFISH (ESSENCE OF SUMMER MAGAZINES): 4 First Line: Among the debris of the year Last Line: Of street pianos and small beer Subject(s): Leisure; Summer GROWLTIGER'S LAST STAND First Line: Growltiger was a bravo cat, who lived upon a barge Last Line: And a day of celebration was commanded at bangkok Subject(s): Animals; Cats GUS: THE THEATRE CAT First Line: Gus is the cat at the theatre door Last Line: When I made history %as firefrorefiddle, the fiend of the fell HE SAID: THIS UNIVERSE IS VERY CLEVER Last Line: No one took the trouble to make an article HIDDEN UNDER THE HERON'S WING Last Line: To be swept away by the housemaid's crimson fist HOLLOW MEN First Line: We are the hollow men Last Line: This is the way the world ends %not with a bang but a whimper HONEYMOON First Line: They have seen the lowlands then returned to terre haute Last Line: In its rotting stones precise byzantine form HYSTERIA Poem Text Recitation First Line: As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her Last Line: Attention with careful subtlety to this end. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress I DO NOT KNOW MUCH ABOUT GODS; BUT I THINK THAT THE RIVER First Line: I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Last Line: And the evening circle in the winter gaslight. IN SILENT CORRIDORS OF DEATH Last Line: Of the alleys of death %of the corridors of death Subject(s): Death IN THAT OPEN FIELD Last Line: Or there, or elsewhere. In my beginning Subject(s): Environment; Fields IN THE DEPARTMENT STORE First Line: The lady of the porcelain department Last Line: It is not possible for me to make her happy Subject(s): Department Stores; Life INSIDE THE GLOOM Last Line: So they cried and chattered %as if it mattered INTERLUDE IN LONDON First Line: We hibernate among the bricks Last Line: And broken flutes at garret windows Subject(s): London INTERLUDE: IN A BAR First Line: Across the room the shifting smoke Last Line: Like dirty broken finger nails %tapping the bar Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders INTROSPECTION First Line: The mind was six feet deep in a Last Line: The brick wall, scraping at the %cracks Subject(s): Introspection JOURNEY OF THE MAGI Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A cold coming we had of it Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Christianity; Christmas; Loss; Magi; Estrangement; Outcasts; Nativity, The JOURNEY OF THE MAGI First Line: A cold coming we had of it Last Line: With an alien people clutching their gods. %I should be glad of another death Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Christianity; Christmas; Loss; Magi LA FIGLIA CHE PIANGE Poem Text First Line: Stand on the highest pavement of the stair Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Regret LA FIGLIA CHE PIANGE First Line: Stand on the highest pavement of the stair Last Line: Sometimes these cogitations still amaze %the troubled midnight and the noon's repose Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Regret LANDSCAPES, SELS. LINES FOR AN OLD MAN Poem Text First Line: The tiger in the tiger-pit Subject(s): Hate; Men LINES FOR AN OLD MAN First Line: The tiger in the tiger-pit Last Line: The dullard knows that he is mad. %tell me if I am not glad Subject(s): Hate; Men LINES TO RALPH HODGSON, ESQRE. Poem Text First Line: How delightful to meet mr. Hodgson Last Line: Everyone wants to meet him Subject(s): Poetry And Poets LITTLE PASSION FROM 'AN AGONY IN THE GARRET' First Line: Upon those stufling august nights Last Line: A smile which I cannot forget %a washed-out, unperceived disgrace LOVE SONG OF ST. SEBASTIAN First Line: I would come in a shirt of hair Last Line: And because you were no longer beautiful %to anyone but me Subject(s): Love; Martyrs; Sebastian, Saint (d. 288) MACAVITY: THE MYSTERY CAT Poem Text First Line: Macavity's a mystery cat: he's called the hidden paw Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Crime & Criminals; Villains In Literature MACAVITY: THE MYSTERY CAT First Line: Macavity's a mystery cat: he's called the hidden paw Last Line: Are nothing more than agents for the cat who all the time %just controls their operations: the napol Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Crime And Criminals; Villains In Literature MANDARINS First Line: Stands there, complete Last Line: How life goes well in pink and green! MARINA Poem Text First Line: What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Sea; Ocean MARINA First Line: What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands Last Line: And woodthrush calling through the fog %my daughter Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Sea MEN WHO TURN FROM GOD First Line: O weariness of men who turn from god Subject(s): Religion MORNING AT THE WINDOW Poem Text First Line: They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens Last Line: And vanishes along the level of the roofs. MR MISTOFFELEES First Line: You ought to know mr mistoffelees Last Line: As magical mr mistoffelees MR. APOLLINAX Poem Text First Line: When mr. Apollinax visited the united states Last Line: I remember a slice of lemon, and a bitten macaroon. MR. ELIOT'S SUNDAY MORNING SERVICE Poem Text First Line: Polyphiloprogenitive / the sapient sutlers of the lord Last Line: Are controversial, polymath. Subject(s): Religion; Theology MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL: CHORUS 1 First Line: We do not wish any to happen Last Line: In a final fear which none understands MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL: CHORUS 2 First Line: We have not been happy, my lord, we have not been too happy Last Line: They curl round you, lie at your feet, swing and wing through the dark air NAMING OF CATS First Line: The naming of cats is a difficult matter Last Line: Deep and inscrutable singular name O LORD, HAVE PATIENCE Last Line: By my classical convictions OH LITTLE VOICES OF THE THROATS OF MEN Last Line: You had not known whether they laughed or wept Subject(s): Truth OLD GUMBIE CAT First Line: I have a gumbie cat in mind, her name is jennyanydots Last Line: On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears ON A PORTRAIT First Line: Among a crowd of tenuous dreams, unknown OPERA First Line: Tristan and isolde Last Line: At the undertakers' ball Subject(s): Opera; Tristram And Isolde OPOSSUM'S DREAM First Line: Opossum %I hang from %the limb Last Line: I hang from %the limb %of sleep PAYSAGE TRISTE First Line: The girl who mounted in the omnibus Last Line: Who had your opera-glasses in his care Subject(s): Buses PORTRAIT OF A LADY Poem Text Recitation First Line: Among the smoke and fog of a december afternoon Subject(s): Friendship; Music & Musicians; Women PORTRAIT OF A LADY First Line: Among the smoke and fog of a december afternoon Last Line: Now that we talk of dying- %and should I have the right to smile? Subject(s): Friendship; Music And Musicians; Women PRELUDE: 2 First Line: The morning comes to consciousness PRELUDE: 3 First Line: You tossed a blanket from the bed PRELUDE: 4 First Line: His soul stretched tight across the skies PRELUDES: 1-4 (COMPLETE) Poem Text First Line: The winter evening settles down Last Line: Gathering fuel in vacant lots. Variant Title(s): Preludes Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight RHAPSODY ON A WINDY NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Twelve o'clock. / among the reaches of the street Last Line: The last twist of the knife. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets RIVER'S TENT IS BROKEN: THE LAST FINGERS OF LEAF Last Line: Sweet thames, run softly, for I speak not loud or long Subject(s): Rivers ROCK, SELS. Subject(s): Religion ROCK: CHORUS 1 First Line: The eagle soars in the summit of heaven Last Line: In country or suburb, and in the town %only for important weddings Variant Title(s): Knowledge Without Wisdo Subject(s): Religion ROCK: CHORUS 10 First Line: You have seen the house built, you have seen it adorned Subject(s): Religion ROCK: CHORUS 2 First Line: O light invisible, we praise thee! ROCK: CHORUS 6 First Line: It is hard for those who have never known persecution Last Line: And if the temple is to be cast down %we must first build the temple Subject(s): Religion ROCK: CHORUSES, SELS. First Line: I journeyed to the suburbs, and there I was told Last Line: If the weather is foul we stay at home and reas the papers Subject(s): Suburbs; Travel RUM TUM TUGGER First Line: The rum tum tugger is a curious cat Last Line: And there's no doing anything about it! SECOND CAPRICE IN NORTH CAMBRIDGE First Line: This charm of vacant lots! Last Line: Under a sunset yellow and rose Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts SILENCE First Line: Along the city streets Last Line: There is nothing else beside Subject(s): Cities; Silence; Streets SKIMBLESHANKS: THE RAILWAY CAT First Line: There's a whisper down the line at 11:39 Last Line: You'll meet without fail on the midnight mail %the cat of the railway train Subject(s): Animals; Cats SMOKE THAT GATHERS BLUE AND SINKS Last Line: Here's your gin %now begin! Subject(s): Singing And Singers; Smoking SONG First Line: When we came home across the hill SONG FOR SIMEON First Line: Lord, the roman hyacinths are blooming in bowls and Last Line: Let thy servant depart, %having seen thy salvation Subject(s): Bible; Religion SONG OF THE JELLICLES First Line: Jellicle cats come out tonight Last Line: They are resting and saving themselves to be right %for the jellicle moon and the jellicle ball Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Imagination SPLEEN First Line: Sunday: this satisfied procession SUITE CLOWNESQUE First Line: Across the painted colonnades Last Line: Concentrated into vest and nose SUPPRESSED COMPLEX First Line: She lay very still in bed with stubborn eyes Last Line: I passed joyously out through the window SWEENEY AGONISTES: FRAGMENT OF A PROLOGUE First Line: How bout pereira? %what about pereira? Last Line: And he's promised to show us around SWEENEY AGONISTES: FRAGMENT OF AN AGON First Line: I'll carry you off %to a cannibal isle Last Line: Knock knock knock %knock %knock %knock SWEENEY AMONG THE NIGHTINGALES Poem Text First Line: Apeneck sweeney spreads his knees Last Line: To stain the stiff dishonoured shroud. Subject(s): Constellations; Decay; Mythology; Rot; Decadence SWEENEY ERECT Poem Text First Line: Paint me a cavernous waste shore Last Line: And a glass of brandy neat. THE BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT Poem Text First Line: The readers of the boston evening transcript Last Line: "and I say, ""cousin harriet, here is the boston evening transcript." Subject(s): Americans; United States; America THE HIPPOPOTAMUS Poem Text First Line: The broad-backed hippopotamus / rests on his belly in the mud Last Line: Wrapt in the old miasmal mist. Subject(s): Animals; Hippopotamuses THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Let us go then, you and I Last Line: Till human voices wake us, and we drown. Subject(s): Aging; Alienation (social Psychology); Apathy; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Modern Man; Paralysis; Estrangement; Outcasts THE ROCK: CHORUS 1 Poem Text First Line: The eagle soars in the summit of heaven Variant Title(s): Knowledge Without Wisdom Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE SONG OF THE JELLICLES Poem Text First Line: Jellicle cats come out tonight Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Imagination; Fancy THE WASTE LAND (1-5, COMPLETE) Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: April is the cruellest month, breeding Last Line: Shantih shantih shantih Subject(s): Civilization; Decay; Emptiness; Rot; Decadence THERE SHALL ALWAYS BE THE CHURCH Last Line: And the gates of hell shall not prevail Subject(s): Religion THIS IS THE DEAD HOUR THREE DREAM SONGS TRIUMPHAL MARCH First Line: Stone, bronze, stone, steel, stone, oakleaves, horses' heels Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; War VISIT First Line: Oh, do not ask, 'what is it?' Last Line: Let us go and make our visit Subject(s): Language WASTE LAND, SELS. First Line: Footsteps shuffled on the stair Last Line: I never know what you are thinking. Think' WASTE LAND: 1. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD First Line: April is the cruellest month, breeding Last Line: You! Hypocrite lecteur! - mon semblable, - mon frere! WASTE LAND: 2. A GAME OF CHESS First Line: The chair she sat in, like a burnished throne Last Line: Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night WASTE LAND: 3. THE FIRE SERMON First Line: The river's tent is broken; the last fingers of leaf Last Line: O lord thou pluckest %burning WASTE LAND: 4. DEATH BY WATER First Line: Phlebas the phoenician, a fortnight dead Last Line: Consider phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you Subject(s): Death WASTE LAND: 5. WHAT THE THUNDER SAID First Line: After the torchlight red on sweaty faces Last Line: Shantih shantih shantih WHEN THE CHURCH IS NO LONGER REGARDED First Line: But is seems that something has happened that has never happened before Subject(s): Religion WHILE YOU WERE ABSENT IN THE LAVORATORY Last Line: Twitching his nose toward the crumbs Subject(s): Restaurants WHISPERS OF IMMORTALITY Poem Text First Line: Webster was much possessed by death Last Line: To keep our metaphysics warm. Subject(s): Immortality WIND SPRANG UP AT FOUR O'CLOCK |
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