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Whispers of Immortality by T. S. Eliot

Whispers of Immortality by T. S. Eliot

Published On Saturday, May 07, 2011. Under: 1900s, Eliot, T. S..
Whispers of Immortality by T. S. Eliot Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground Leaned backward with a lipless grin. Daffodil bulbs instead of balls Stared from the sockets of the eyes! He knew that thought clings round dead limbs Tightening its lusts ...
Preludes by T. S. Eliot

Preludes by T. S. Eliot

Published On Sunday, March 06, 2011. Under: 1900s, Eliot, T. S., Uncategorized.
Preludes by T. S. Eliot I The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of ...
Conversation Galante by T. S. Eliot

Conversation Galante by T. S. Eliot

Published On Thursday, January 06, 2011. Under: 1800s, Eliot, T. S..
Conversation Galante by T. S. Eliot  I observe: "Our sentimental friend the moon  Or possibly (fantastic, I confess)  It may be Prester John's balloon  Or an old battered lantern hung aloft  To light poor travellers to their distress."    She then: "How you digress!"  And I then: "Some one frames upon the keys  That ...
Portrait of a Lady by T. S. Eliot

Portrait of a Lady by T. S. Eliot

Published On Monday, November 08, 2010. Under: 1900s, Eliot, T. S..
Portrait of a Lady by T. S. Eliot Thou hast committed— Fornication: but that was in another country, ...
The Hippopotamus by T. S. Eliot

The Hippopotamus by T. S. Eliot

Published On Sunday, July 25, 2010. Under: 1900s, Eliot, T. S..
The Hippopotamus        Similiter et omnes revereantur Diaconos, ut        mandatum Jesu Christi; et Episcopum, ut Jesum        Christum, existentem filium Patris; Presbyteros        autem, ut concilium Dei et conjunctionem        Apostolorum. Sine his Ecclesia non vocatur; de        quibus suadeo vos sic habeo.        S. IGNATII AD TRALLIANOS.        And when this ...
Rhapsody on a Windy Night by T. S. Eliot

Rhapsody on a Windy Night by T. S. Eliot

Published On Thursday, June 24, 2010. Under: 1900s, Eliot, T. S..
Rhapsody on a Windy Night by T. S. Eliot Twelve o'clock. Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar incantations Disolve the floors of memory And all its clear relations, Its divisions and precisions, Every street lamp that I pass Beats like a fatalistic drum, And through the spaces of the ...
Aunt Helen by T. S. Eliot

Aunt Helen by T. S. Eliot

Published On Wednesday, May 19, 2010. Under: 1900s, Eliot, T. S..
Aunt Helen Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt, And lived in a small house near a fashionable square Cared for by servants to the number of four. Now when she died there was silence in heaven And silence at her end of the street. The shutters were drawn and the ...
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot

Published On Sunday, May 02, 2010. Under: 1900s, Eliot, T. S..
Simply, one of the greatest poets of all time. T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

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