The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I

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by Thomas Stearns Eliot, Christopher Ricks


  New Hampshire I 144

  No peevish winter wind shall chill I 319

  Nocturne I 234

  Not the expression of collective emotion I 215

  A Note on War Poetry I 215

  Notes on the Waste Land I 72

  Now Chris Columbo lived in Spain II 259

  Now my Idea of Bliss II 169

  NOW when they’d been 4 months at Sea II 261

  Now while Columbo & his Crew II 263

  Now while Columbo and his men II 250

  Now while our heroes were at sea II 251

  O Father we welcome your words I 171

  O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart I 165

  O lord, have patience I 275

  O Postman! take a little skiff II 158

  O Postman, will you quickly run II 157

  O quick quick quick, quick hear the song-sparrow I 148

  O stalwart SUSSEX postman, who is II 160

  O wot avails the noble race II 178

  Ode (‘For the hour that is left us Fair Harvard, with thee’) I 242

  Ode (‘Tired. | Subterrene’) I 280

  Ode to a Roman Coot II 220

  Of all the beasts that God allows I 296

  Of the Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles II 18

  Oh dae ye ken the turdie lads II 194

  Oh, how well I remember the old Bull and Bush I 304

  Oh little voices of the throats of men I 264

  Old Deuteronomy II 16

  Old Deuteronomy’s lived a long time II 16

  The Old Gumbie Cat II 6

  On every sultry afternoon I 247

  On a Portrait I 232

  One Day Columbo & His Men II 262

  One day Columbo & the Queen II 267

  One day Columbo went below II 253

  One of my marionettes is dead I 237

  Opera I 236

  The O’Possum Strikes Back II 215

  Our prayers dismiss the parting shade I 284

  Paint me a cavernous waste shore I 36

  Paysage Triste I 267

  The Pekes and the Pollicles II 18

  Perhaps you will have been appal- II 158

  Persistent lovers will repair I 286

  Petit Epître I 277

  Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead I 67

  Pipit sate upright in her chair I 38

  Poet’s Corner II 147

  Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats I 294

  Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats! II 162

  Polyphiloprogenitive I 49

  Poor Poony now is meek and mild II 175

  Portrait of a Lady I 10

  Possum now wishes to explain his silence II 185

  Postman, propel thy feet II 160

  The Practical Cat I 301

  A Practical Possum I 299

  Preludes I 15

  A Proclamation I 298

  Prufrock’s Pervigilium II 316

  Put on your old grey corset II 188

  Rannoch, by Glencoe I 147

  Red river, red river I 145

  Rhapsody on a Windy Night I 18

  Richards & Roberts were two merry men II 201

  ROAR Podesta ROAR, like any efficient druid, shanachie or scop II 256

  Romeo, grand sérieux, to importune I 234

  The Rum Tum Tugger II 10

  Second Caprice in North Cambridge I 235

  Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets II 316

  … She haunted many a low resort I 306

  She lay very still in bed with stubborn eyes I 268

  Silence I 243

  Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat II 29

  Sleeping Together I 317

  Sleeping together includes a little waking I 317

  So through the evening, through the violet air I 272

  Son of Man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears I 173

  Song (‘If space and time, as sages say’) I 223

  Song (‘The golden foot I may not kiss or clutch’) I 284

  Song (‘The moonflower opens to the moth’) I 233

  Song (‘When we came home across the hill’) I 231

  A Song for Simeon

  The Song of the Jellicles II 12

  Speaking Piece, or Plum for Reciters II 196

  Spleen I 239

  Stand on the highest pavement of the stair I 28

  Standing upon the shore of all we know I 227

  Stands there, complete I 243

  Stone, bronze, stone, steel, stone, oakleaves, horses’ heels I 131

  Suite Clownesque I 249

  Sunday: this satisfied procession I 239

  Suppressed Complex I 268

  Sweeney Agonistes I 113

  Sweeney Among the Nightingales I 51

  Sweeney Erect I 36

  Take, postman, take your little skiff II 156

  That bird wych in the dark time of the yeerë II 288

  The August wind is shambling down the street I 239

  The broad-backed hippopotamus I 43

  The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne I 58

  The children who explored the brook and found I 217

  The Cook who serv’d them Pork and Beans II 260

  The Dove dove down an oyster Dive II 266

  The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven I 153

  The Elephant at forty-nine II 217

  The engine hammered and hummed I 274

  The Flagship of Columbo’s Fleet II 260

  The girl who mounted in the omnibus I 267

  The golden foot I may not kiss or clutch I 284

  The gourmet cat was of course Cumberleylaude I 315

  The inhabitants of Hampstead have silk hats I 281

  The Jim Jum Bears are at their Tricks I 302

  The ladies who are interested in Assyrian art I 267

  The lady of the porcelain department I 268

  The little negro girl who lives across the alley I 241

  The long light shakes across the lake I 142

  The mind was six feet deep in a I 273

  The moonflower opens to the moth I 233

  The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter II 5

  The Outlook gives an interview I 260

  The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows II 18

  The Practical Cat goes up the flues I 301

  The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript I 22

  The river’s tent is broken; the last fingers of leaf I 62

  The Rum Tugger is a Curious Cat II 10

  The sage will refrain from sitting in with Archbishops II 194

  The sailor, attentive to the chart or to the sheets I 340

  The smoke that gathers blue and sinks I 258

  The songsters of the air repair I 141

  The sudden unexpected gift II 198

  The tiger in the tiger-pit I 149

  The Wedding Guest Here Beat his Breast II 261

  The Whale that leapt on Bredon II 185

  The wind sprang up at four o’clock I 140

  The winter evening settles down I 15

  The Word of the LORD came unto me, saying I 161

  There are dogs out of every nation I 303

  There are plenty of folk with fantastical notions I 288

  There are several attitudes towards Christmas I 109

  There are those who would build the Temple I 164

  There’s a whisper down the line at 11.39 II 29

  There’s No One Left to Press my Pants II 153

  There was a jolly tinker came across the sea II 285

  There was a young girl of Siberia II 287

  There was a young lady named Lu II 149

  There was a young lady named Ransome II 286

  They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens I 21

  This charm of vacant lots! I 235

  This Lion which I have pourtrayed II 170

  Those are pearls that were his eyes. See! I 286

  Three Sonnets II 22
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  Thus your fathers were made I 158

  Time present and time past I 179

  Tired I 280

  ‘’Tis WUX that makes the world go round II 268

  To the Class of 1905 I 227

  To Helen I 271

  To the Indians who Died in Africa I 216

  To Walter de la Mare I 217

  To whom I owe the leaping delight I 219

  Translation into English of ‘Verses for the Coot’ II 231

  Tristan and Isolde I 236

  Tristan Corbière I 279

  The Triumph of Bullshit I 252

  Triumphal March I 131

  Twelve o’clock I 18

  ULYSSES, in his age, had tales to tell I 308

  Under the bronze leaves a colt was foaled II 83

  UP BOYS AND AT ’EM II 251

  Upon those stifling August nights I 262

  Usk I 146

  A Valedictory I 292

  Vers pour la Foulque II 229

  VERSES To Honour and Magnify Sir Geoffrey Faber Kt. I 313

  Virginia I 145

  Was it a morning or an afternoon I 256

  The Waste Land I 53

  The Waste Land: An Editorial Composite I 323

  We are the hollow men I 81

  We fear’d that we had bitch’d him quite I 644

  We hibernate among the bricks I 260

  We turn the corner of the street I 253

  Webster was much possessed by death I 47

  Wee Dolly Sayers II 197

  The Whale and the Elephant: A Fable II 217

  Whan Cam Ye Fra the Kirk? II 171

  What O! Epitaff II 178

  What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands I 107

  What the Thunder said I 68

  What was he doing, the Great God Wux? II 258

  When icicles hang by the wall II 193

  When Mr. Apollinax visited the United States I 25

  When my beloved stands tall and naked I 318

  When the flowering nettle’s in blossom II 211

  When we came home across the hill I 231

  Where Castleawray’s froonin’ peaks II 171

  While all the East was weaving red with gray I 231

  While you were absent in the lavatory I 271

  Whispers of Immortality I 47

  Who walked between the violet and the violet I 92

  Within the yellow ring of flame I 262

  You have seen the house built, you have seen it adorned I 175

  You ought to know Mr. Mistoffelees! II 21

  Your cablegram arrived too late II 201

  You’ve read of several kinds of Cat II 32

  About the Authors

  THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He settled in England in 1915 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

  CHRISTOPHER RICKS is Co-Director, with Archie Burnett, of the Editorial Institute at Boston University. His publications on Eliot include T. S. Eliot and Prejudice (1988), Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909–1917 (1996), and Decisions and Revisions in T. S. Eliot (the Panizzi Lectures, 2002), together with True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound (2007).

  JIM McCUE is the author of Edmund Burke and Our Present Discontents (1997) and editor of the Penguin Selected Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough (1991). For fifteen years he worked for The Times, where he wrote the Bibliomane column. His imprint, the Foundling Press, began with the first separate publication of T. S. Eliot’s Eeldrop and Appleplex, and has printed for the first time writings by Alexander Pope, Ben Jonson, Henry James and A. E. Housman.

  By the Same Author

  By T. S. Eliot

  THE COMPLETE POEMS AND PLAYS

  verse

  COLLECTED POEMS 1909–1962

  PRUFROCK AND OTHER OBSERVATIONS

  THE WASTE LAND AND OTHER POEMS

  FOUR QUARTETS

  SELECTED POEMS

  THE WASTE LAND:

  A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts

  edited by Valerie Eliot

  INVENTIONS OF THE MARCH HARE:

  Poems 1909–1917

  edited by Christopher Ricks

  THE ARIEL POEMS

  THE WASTE LAND

  OLD POSSUM’S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS

  plays

  MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL

  THE FAMILY REUNION

  THE COCKTAIL PARTY

  THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK

  THE ELDER STATESMAN

  literary criticism

  THE SACRED WOOD

  SELECTED ESSAYS

  THE USE OF POETRY AND THE USE OF CRITICISM

  TO CRITICIZE THE CRITIC

  ON POETRY AND POETS

  SELECTED PROSE OF T. S. ELIOT

  edited by Frank Kermode

  THE COMPLETE PROSE OF T. S. ELIOT: THE CRITICAL EDITION

  Volume 1: Apprentice Years, 1905–1918

  edited by Jewel Spears Brooker and Ronald Schuchard

  Volume 2: The Perfect Critic, 1919–1926

  edited by Anthony Cuda and Ronald Schuchard

  social criticism

  NOTES TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF CULTURE

  letters

  THE LETTERS OF T. S. ELIOT

  Volume 1: 1898–1922

  Volume 2: 1923–1925

  edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton

  Volume 3: 1926–1927

  Volume 4: 1928–1929

  Volume 5: 1930–1931

  Volume 6: 1932–1933

  edited by Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden

  Copyright

  First published in 2015

  by Faber & Faber Ltd

  Bloomsbury House

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  London WC1B 3DA

  This ebook edition first published in 2015

  All rights reserved

  All writings by T. S. Eliot © Set Copyrights Limited 2015

  Introduction, commentary and editorial material

  © Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue 2015

  The right of Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue to be identified as editors of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

  This ebook is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s and publisher’s rights, and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly

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