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The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I

Page 202

by Thomas Stearns Eliot, Christopher Ricks


  Harvard course “Philosophical Sanskrit” 641

  Woolf, Leonard: 711, 875; Hogarth Press edition of Poems (1919) 462–63;

  Hogarth Press edition of The Waste Land 547, 565–66;

  and Commerce 727;

  on de la Mare 1057

  Woolf, Virginia: 357, 409, 428, 462–64, 497, 534, 578, 942, 993, 1198; describes TSE reading The Waste Land 565, 569;

  typesetting of The Waste Land 565, 615 (see also Woolf, Leonard);

  fiction 596;

  and Sweeney Agonistes 787, 802–803;

  and TSE’s songs 1112, 1126;

  “good criticism” of Ash-Wednesday II 422;

  Craftsmanship 929, 955, 1036, 1040;

  Diary 463, 565, 620, 787, 1077;

  Jacob’s Room 898;

  Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown 357, 478, 498, 631, 717;

  Night and Day 737;

  Notes on an Elizabethan Play 750

  Wordsworth, William: “break with tradition” 355; “Wordsworthian” 845;

  The Brothers 689;

  Composed among the ruins of a Castle in North Wales 916;

  The Excursion 1101, 1202;

  “I wandered lonely as a cloud” 1091;

  Nutting 1088;

  Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood 529, 531, 769, 1110;

  Resolution and Independence 289;

  The Old Cumberland Beggar 1133;

  The Prelude 1122;

  The Redbreast 696;

  Resolution and Independence 609, 1201;

  The Reverie of Poor Susan 1193;

  Ruth 856;

  Sonnet (“The world is too much with us; late and soon”) 682, 1120;

  Stepping Westward II 145;

  The Tables Turned II 228;

  To the Cuckoo II 197;

  To the Highland Girl of Inversneyde 604;

  We are Seven 1111

  Wren, Christopher: 670–74, 862, 864

  Wyatt, Thomas: They flee from me that sometime did me seek 389, 1146, 1166

  Wycherley, William: 467; The Country Wife 648

  Wyndham, George: 432, 507, 617

  Yeats, William Butler: 512, 514, 552, 951, 1012, 1221–22, II 203; did not influence TSE 355, 359, 580;

  on The Waste Land 574;

  and Sweeney Agonistes 804;

  and East Coker 935;

  and Blake 935;

  “not merely genius” 954;

  and Little Gidding 1012–14;

  death 1020;

  An Acre of Grass 939;

  At the Hawk’s Well 461, 800;

  The Cat and the Moon II 41–42;

  Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931 1213;

  Four Plays for Dancers 802;

  He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead 1144;

  The Host of the Air 842;

  The Lake Isle of Innisfree II 178;

  Lapis Lazuli 1001;

  Men Improve with the Years 396;

  Michael Robartes bids his Beloved be at Peace II 222;

  On Being Asked for a War Poem II 178;

  Purgatory 1001;

  September 1913 838;

  The Shadowy Waters II 156;

  The Spur 845, 1012;

  The Ten Principal Upanishads 977;

  Three Things 744, 971;

  The Trembling of the Veil 574;

  Vacillation 1025;

  The Winding Stair and Other Poems 1024–25, 1213

  Young, Edward: Night Thoughts 448, 529, 1136

  Index of Titles and First Lines

  A Boy who went to bed one night II 150

  ‘A cold coming we had of it I 101

  A Man ſo various that he ſeem’d to be I 313

  A man’s destination is his own village I 216

  A Practical Possum once lived in a Pye I 299

  A street-piano, garrulous and frail I 235

  Abschied zur Bina II 232

  Across the painted colonnades I 249

  Across the room the shifting smoke I 257

  The Ad-dressing of Cats II 32

  Admonished by the sun’s inclining ray I 332

  After the torchlight red on sweaty faces I 68

  After the turning of the inspired days I 271

  Afternoon I 267

  An Agony in the Garret I 262

  Airs of Palestine, No. 2 I 276

  Allons nous promener, si tu veux II 229

  Along the city streets I 243

  Although I do not hope to turn again I 96

  Always the August evenings come I 246

  AMAZ’D astronomers did late descry I 312

  America Discover’d II 261

  Among a crowd of tenuous dreams, unknown I 232

  Among my marionettes I find I 238

  Among the débris of the year I 248

  Among the smoke and fog of a December afternoon I 10

  AMONG the various Middle Classes II 177

  An old man sat baldheaded, ’twas Christmas in Bombay II 194

  Anabasis II 79

  Animula I 105

  The Anniversary I 291

  Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees I 51

  April is the cruellest month, breeding I 55

  Are you a- II 161

  Around her fountain which flows I 231

  As I was walking down the street II 153

  As she laughed I was aware I 26

  Ash-Wednesday I 85

  At a point between Edgware and Morden II 215

  At the first turning of the second stair I 91

  Aunt Helen I 23

  Bacchus and Ariadne: 2nd Debate between the Body and Soul I 257

  Back head be full of aches II 166

  Ballade of the Fox Dinner I 233

  Ballade pour la grosse Lulu I 260

  Balls to you said Mrs. Sonnenschien II 286

  Be not astonished at this point to see II 165

  Be sure that Possums can’t refuse II 186

  Because I do not hope to turn again I 87

  Before Morning I 231

  Bellegarde I 290

  Beware, my boy, the aged maid II 179

  Billy M’Caw: The Remarkable Parrot I 304

  The Blameless Sister of Publicola II 290

  The Bonnie Bonnie Braes of Glengoofie II 171

  The ‘Boston Evening Transcript’ I 22

  The Builders I 287

  Burbank crossed a little bridge I 34

  Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar I 34

  The Burial of the Dead I 55

  The Burnt Dancer I 262

  Burnt Norton I 179

  Bustopher Jones: The Cat about Town II 27

  Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones II 27

  Cape Ann I 148

  Cat Morgan Introduces Himself II 35

  Cat Morgan’s Apology II 35

  THE CATALOGUE OF SHIPMATES II 260

  THE CATALOGUE OF SHIPS II 260

  Cat’s Prologue II 165

  Ce n’est pas pour qu’on se dégoute I 277

  Chandos Clerihews II 182

  Children’s voices in the orchard I 144

  Choruses from ‘The Rock’ I 151

  Circe’s Palace I 231

  Clerihews II II 189

  Clerihews III II 190

  Clerihews IV I 200

  The Columbiad II 269

  Columbo he lived over in Spain II 269

  COME, Glorious Rabbitt, how long wilt thou slumber II 287

  Come under the shadow of this gray rock I 270

  Convalescence II II 192

  Convalescents II 191

  Conversation Galante I 27

  Convictions (Curtain Raiser) I 238

  A Cooking Egg I 38

  Coriolan I 129

  The Country Walk I 296

  Cousin Nancy I 24

  CRY what shall I cry? I 133

  The Cultivation of Christmas Trees I 109

  CUST! whose loud martial oaths did once proclaim II 225

  Dans le Restaurant I 45

  DE LA MARE delica
te I 309

  DEAR ALISON, I fear I can- II 181

  Dear Charlotte, Hoping you are better II 152

  Dear little flower, lift up your head II 150

  Dear Madam, Thank you for your letter. I am grieved to find I 307

  Dearest Mary II 155

  Dearest Mr. Groucho Marx II 202

  Death by Water I 67

  The Death of the Duchess I 281

  The Death of Saint Narcissus I 270

  Dedication III 319

  A Dedication to my Wife I 219

  Defence of the Islands I 213

  DEIPNOSOPHISTIC II 263

  Difficulties of a Statesman I 133

  Le Directeur I 40

  Dirge I 285

  Do I know how I feel? Do I know what I think? I 269

  Do not suddenly break the branch, or I 146

  The Dry Salvages I 193

  East Coker I 185

  Easter: Sensations of April I 241

  Elegy I 284

  Embarquement pour Cythère I 246

  En Amérique, professeur I 41

  The Engine I 274

  Entretien dans un parc I 256

  Exequy I 286

  An Exhortation II 179

  Eyes that last I saw in tears I 139

  FABER! of thy great exploits ’twas not least II 226

  A Fable for Feasters I 224

  Fair stood the wind for France I 298

  The fate of the Naughty Boy II 150

  The Fire Sermon I 62

  Fireside II 147

  First Caprice in North Cambridge I 235

  First Debate between the Body and Soul I 239

  First we had a couple of feelers down at Tom’s place I 324

  Five-Finger Exercises I 141

  For below a voice did answer, sweet in its youthful tone II 254

  For the hour that is left us Fair Harvard, with thee I 242

  Four Quartets I 177

  Fourth Caprice in Montparnasse I 253

  Fragment of an Agon I 121

  Fragment of a Prologue I 115

  Fragments II 285

  ‘Fresca couplets’ II 387

  Full fathom five your Bleistein lies I 285

  A Game of Chess I 58

  GEOFFREY! who once did walk the earth like Jove II 225

  Gerontion I 31

  God from a Cloud to Spender spoke I 276

  Goldfish (Essence of Summer Magazines) I 246

  Good Postman, leave this at the door II 159

  Graham of Claverhouse II 200

  Grizabella: The Glamour Cat I 306

  Growltiger’s Last Stand II 8

  Growltiger was a Bravo Cat, who travelled on a barge II 8

  Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door II 25

  Gus: The Theatre Cat II 25

  Hasty Ned, the Negro Hustler II 150

  He Do the Police in Different Voices I 324 / 328

  He said: this universe is very clever I 259

  He who in ceaseless labours took delight II 202

  Here I am, an old man in a dry month I 31

  Here the crow starves, here the patient stag I 147

  Hidden under the heron’s wing I 275

  The Hippopotamus I 43

  His note is harsh and adenoid II 196

  The Hollow Men I 79

  How about Pereira? I 115

  How delightful to meet Mr. Hodgson! I 142

  How the Tall Girl and I Play Together I 316

  How the Tall Girl’s Breasts Are I 318

  How to Pick a Possum II 211

  How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot! I 143

  Humouresque I 237

  Hysteria I 26

  I am asked by my friend, the Man in White Spats I 298

  I am the Resurrection and the Life I 272

  I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river I 193

  I don’t want to see no Shakespeare or Napoleon II 200

  I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots II 6

  I have halted my horse by the tree of the doves II 129

  I’ll carry you off I 121

  I know a nice girl named Valeria II 290

  I love a tall girl. When we stand face to face I 316

  I love to stroll II 196

  I observe: ‘Our sentimental friend the moon! I 27

  I once was a Pirate what sailed the ’igh seas II 35

  I saw their lives curl upward like a wave I 257

  I thought I saw an antique ship II 148

  I thought I saw a banker’s clerk II 148

  I thought I saw a brindle bull II 148

  I thought I saw a chimpanzee II 148

  I thought I saw a elephant II 147

  I thought I saw a kangaroo II 149

  I thought I saw a little bird II 148

  I thought I saw a log fi-ER II 149

  I thought I saw a pair of shoes II 149

  I was lunching one day at The Princess Louise I 294

  I would come in a shirt of hair I 265

  If space and time, as sages say I 223

  If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent I 94

  If Time and Space, as Sages say I 223

  Ill done and undone I 287

  Ils ont vu les Pays-Bas, ils rentrent à Terre Haute I 42

  Im schönen Binagarten II 232

  In a brown field stood a tree I 141

  In the Cage I 328

  In the Department Store I 268

  In England, long before that royal Mormon I 224

  In my beginning is my end. In succession I 185

  In Respect of Felines I 307

  In silent corridors of death I 275

  In springtime, when the year was new I 292

  In the beginning God created the world I 168

  ‘In old Manila harbour, the Yankee wardogs lay II 254

  Inscriptions to Sir Geoffrey Faber on the occasion of his knighthood I 312

  Inside the gloom I 254

  Interlude: in a Bar I 257

  Interlude in London I 260

  Introspection I 273

  Invitation to all Pollicle Dogs & Jellicle Cats II 162

  ‘Issues from the hand of God, the simple soul’ I 105

  It is hard for those who have never known persecution I 166

  It is not right for likes of me I 291

  It’s our Mr. Eliot what started me writin’ I 308

  Jellicle Cats come out to-night II 12

  The Jim Jum Bears I 302

  Journey of the Magi I 101

  K. B. b. b. b. k. II 252

  Kierkegaard and Rilke shouting in the lava II 289

  King Bolo’s big black basstart kuwheen II 254

  King Bolo’s big black basstart queen II 255

  King Bolo’s big black bassturd kween II 252

  King Bolo’s big black bassturd kween II 252

  King Bolo’s big black bassturd kween II 252

  King Bolo’s Big Black Bastard Queen II 268

  King Bolo’s big black kukquheen II 253

  La Figlia Che Piange I 28

  Ladies, on whom my attentions have waited I 252

  Ladies, the moon is on its way! I 246

  Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree I 89

  Landscapes I 144

  The Lass wha Wrapt me in her Plaidie II 171

  Le garçon délabré qui n’a rien à faire I 45

  Leaping pleasure passes tunefully I 290

  Let quacks, empirics, dolts debate I 311

  Let these memorials of built stone—music’s I 213

  Let us go then, you and II 5

  Let us proceed to make a walk II 231

  Lift her up tenderly II 188

  LINES Addressed to Geoffrey Faber Esquire, on his Return from a Voyage to the Bahamas, and the Parts about New Spain I 308

  Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg I 143

  Lines for an Old Man I 149

  Lines to a Duck in the Park I 142

  Lines to a Persian Cat I
141

  Lines to Ralph Hodgson Esqre. I 142

  Lines to a Yorkshire Terrier I 141

  Little Gidding I 201

  The Little Passion: From ‘An Agony in the Garret’ I 262

  Long may this Glass endure, and brim with wine I 314

  Lord, the Roman hyacinths are blooming in bowls and I 103

  ‘Love seeketh not Itself to please I 319

  The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock I 5

  The Love Song of St. Sebastian I 265

  Lune de Miel I 42

  A Lyric I 223

  Macavity: The Mystery Cat II 23

  Macavity’s a Mystery Cat; he’s called the Hidden Paw II 23

  Malheur à la malheureuse Tamise I 40

  Mandarins I 243

  Many thanks for your letter and card which details II 167

  The Marching Song of the Pollicle Dogs I 303

  Marin! je te connais, rentier du cinquième I 279

  Marina I 107

  Mélange Adultère de Tout I 41

  Midwinter spring is its own season I 201

  Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt I 23

  Miss Mary Trevelyan II 187

  Miss Nancy Ellicott I 24

  Mr. Apollinax I 25

  Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service I 49

  Mr. Geoffrey Davies II 190

  Mr. Geoffrey Faber II 190

  Mr. Geoffrey Faber II 191

  Mr. Geoffrey Faber II 192

  Mr. Geoffrey Faber II 192

  Mr. Geoffrey Faber’s II 191

  Mr. Hilderic Cousens II 183

  Mr. John Hayward II 189

  Mr. Maurice Bowra II 198

  Mr. Maurice B. Reckitt II 182

  Mr. Mistoffelees II 21

  Mr. Philip Mairet II 182

  Mr. Possum wishes that his name was Tristram Shandy II 166

  Mr. Pugstyles: The Elegant Pig I 288

  Montpelier Row I 309

  Morgan, the Commissionaire Cat II 35

  Morgan Tries Again I 308

  Morning at the Window I 21

  Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer II 14

  Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer were a very notorious couple of cats II 14

  Muse of the rye and ginger ale I 233

  My good friend Postman, do not falter II 159

  My head aches, and a drowsy numbness pains II 220

  The Naming of Cats II 5

 

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