Thomas Stearns Eliot

Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service (Poem by Thomas Stearns Eliot)

Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service By  Thomas Stearns Eliot     Look, look, master, here comes two religious     caterpillars.                   …

The Hippopotamus (Poem by Thomas Stearns Eliot)

The Hippopotamus By  Thomas Stearns Eliot     Similiter et omnes revereantur Diaconos, ut     mandatum Jesu Christi; et Episcopum, ut Jesum     Chris…

A Game of Chess (Poem by Thomas Stearns Eliot)

A Game of Chess By  Thomas Stearns Eliot The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, Glowed on the marble, where the glass Held up by standards wr…

Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar (Poem by Thomas Stearns Eliot)

Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar By  Thomas Stearns Eliot     Tra-la-la-la-la-la-laire — nil nisi divinum stabile     est; caetera fum…

Sweeney Among the Nightingales (Poem by Thomas Stearns Eliot)

Sweeney Among the Nightingales By  Thomas Stearns Eliot Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees Letting his arms hang down to laugh, The zebra stripes alon…

Whispers of Immortality (Poem by Thomas Stearns Eliot)

Whispers of Immortality By  Thomas Stearns Eliot Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures und…

The Burial of the Dead (Poem by Thomas Stearns Eliot)

The Burial of the Dead By  Thomas Stearns Eliot April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirrin…

Sweeney Erect (Poem by Thomas Stearns Eliot)

Sweeney Erect By  Thomas Stearns Eliot                         And the trees about me,     Let them be dry and leafless; let the rocks     Groan with…

Gerontion (Poem by Thomas Stearns Eliot)

Gerontion By  Thomas Stearns Eliot     Thou hast nor youth nor age     But as it were an after dinner sleep     Dreaming of both. Here I am, an old m…
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