POEMS


by T. S. ELIOT


New York Alfred A. Knopf 1920



To Jean Verdenal 1889-1915

Certain of these poems first appeared in Poetry, Blast,
Others, The Little Review, and Art and Letters.






CONTENTS


POEMS


Gerontion

Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar

Sweeney Erect

A Cooking Egg

Le Directeur

Mélange adultère de tout

Lune de Miel

The Hippopotamus

Dans le Restaurant

Whispers of Immortality

Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service

Sweeney Among the Nightingales

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Portrait of a Lady

Preludes

Rhapsody on a Windy Night

Morning at the Window

The Boston Evening Transcript

Aunt Helen

Cousin Nancy

Mr. Apollinax

Hysteria

Conversation Galante

La Figlia Che Piange






POEMS




Gerontion

       Thou hast nor youth nor age       But as it were an after dinner sleep       Dreaming of both.
     Here I am, an old man in a dry month,     Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.     I was neither at the hot gates     Nor fought in the warm rain     Nor knee deep in the salt marsh, heaving a cutlass,     Bitten by flies, fought.     My house is a decayed house,     And the jew squats on the window sill, the owner,     Spawned in some estaminet of Antwerp,     Blistered in Brussels, patched and peeled in London.     The goat coughs at night in the field overhead;     Rocks, moss, stonecrop, iron, merds.     The woman keeps the kitchen, makes tea,     Sneezes at evening, poking the peevish gutter.                       I an old man,     A dull head among windy spaces.     Signs are taken fo                        
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