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Subject: ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS (1888-1965)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1912-1952, FULL CYCLE: 1. LOVE SONG OF PRUFROCK JUNIOR, by PETER VIERECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Must all successful rebels grow
Last Line: Today the women come and go %talking of t.S. Eliot
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)


ACCOUNTING CAT, by JOHN CLARKE (AUSTRALIAN)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Liquidity's a mystery; it's very rarely seen
Last Line: They can't catch him, he's the brilliant scarlet pimpernel of crime!
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)


CHARD WHITLOW (MR. ELIOT'S SUNDAY EVENING POSTCRIPT), by HENRY REED    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As we get older we do not get any younger
Subject(s): Aging; Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Eliot, T. S.


CHARD WHITLOW (MR. ELIOT'S SUNDAY EVENING POSTCRIPT), by HENRY REED    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As we get older we do not get any younger
Last Line: And pray for kharma under the holy mountain
Subject(s): Aging; Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)


DEFEATED ROMANTICISM / OF T.S. ELIOT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A copy of the waste land %on a very high shelf
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)


DOUBLE DACTYL, by CHRIS WALLACE-CRABBE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Higgledy-piggledy %thomas stearns eliot
Last Line: Think it absurd
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)


EAST COKER, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, whence his forbears sprang, a man is laid
Last Line: And christmas song respond, and easter song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Assassination; Crime & Criminals; Death; Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Rest; Somerset, England; Dead, The; Eliot, T. S.


FOR THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT ON THE QUESTION OF HIS ONE HUNDREDTH ..., by THOMAS RABBITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: There he is, mars rising, a purulent red dot
Last Line: Playing possum in the middle of the road
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)


FROM THE LOVE SONG OF TOMMO FROGLEY, by ROGER CRAWFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Comeahead then comeahead
Last Line: Chattin back ter their radios
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Eliot, T. S.


KING, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked along the river path, the river
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Eliot, T. S.


MERMAID'S SONG, by VERNA SAFRAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm one of the mermaids in prufrock's song
Last Line: To be courted by prufrocks %who cannot, will not, swim
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


MR. ELIOT'S DAY, by ROBERT FRANCIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At 8:00 he rises, bathes, and dresses
Last Line: At 12:00 he mounts, with measutred tread, %the penitential stairs to bed
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)


MR. ELIOT'S PROFILE, by HELEN SMITH BEVINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: There, %at a performance of 'the family reunion'
Last Line: Is the thing I never know. Or hardly ever
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)


NOTE TOWARD A DEFINITION OF CULTURE, by JAMES CAMP    Poem Source                    
First Line: T.S. Eliot
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)


SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 6. WHAT THE CHAIRMAN TOLD TOM, by BASIL BUNTING    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poetry? It's a hobby
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Poetry & Poets; Eliot, T. S.


SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 6. WHAT THE CHAIRMAN TOLD TOM, by BASIL BUNTING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poetry? It's a hobby
Last Line: He ought to know. %go and find work
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Poetry And Poets


SMALL QUARREL WITH T. S. ELIOT, by JUNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: If love is not the best of poems ever penned
Last Line: Still, every kiss is our beginning and our end
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


T.S. ELIOT, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: T.S. Eliot is quite at a loss
Last Line: Did you mean by, 'the mill on the floss?'
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)


T.S. ELIOT, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Caught between two streams of traffic, in the gloom
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Eliot, T. S.


T.S. ELIOT, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Caught between two streams of traffic, in the gloom
Last Line: Humor and honor from the evelasting dross
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)


THE DEFEATED ROMANTICISM / OF T.S. ELIOT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A copy of the waste land / on a very high shelf
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)


TO T.S. ELIOT, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When things began to happen to our favourite spot
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)


TO T.S. ELIOT, by EMANUEL LITVINOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eminence becomes you. Now when the rockis struck
Last Line: Let your words tread lightly on this earth of europe %lest my people's bones protest
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)


VERSES FOR THE 60TH BIRTHDAY OF T.S. ELIOT, by GEORGE BARKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By that evening window where
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)


VICE, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Higgledy-piggledy / thomas stearns eliot
Last Line: Zeugmas, and rhymes he de-/plored in his prose
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Eliot, T. S.


VICE, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Higgledy-piggledy %thomas stearns eliot
Last Line: Zeugmas, and rhymes he de- %plored in his prose
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)


WAR OF THE SECRET AGENTS: 2. JANE ALABASTER: LETTER TO T.S. ELIOT, by HENRI COULETTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dearest possum, %it is as if I wrote you
Last Line: But as poets count their strophes, with a sense %of the timeless and the tru
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)


WASTE LAND LIMERICKS: 1, by WENDY COPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In april one seldom feels cheerful
Last Line: Met stetson and gave him an earful
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)


WASTE LAND LIMERICKS: 2, by WENDY COPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She sat in a mighty fine chair
Last Line: Bad as albert and lil - what a pair
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)


WASTE LAND LIMERICKS: 3, by WENDY COPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The thames runs, bones rattle, rats creep
Last Line: Wei la la. After this it gets deep
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)


WASTE LAND LIMERICKS: 4, by WENDY COPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A phoenician called phlebas forgot
Last Line: And been left in the ocean to rot
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)


WASTE LAND LIMERICKS: 5, by WENDY COPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No water. Dry rocks and dry throats
Last Line: I hope you'll make sense of the notes
Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights