Essential Poems

A first path through T. S. Eliot, balancing reader signal, quality labels, registers, and obvious canonical titles.

The Hollow MenMistah Kurtz—he dead. / A penny for the Old Guy / I / We are the hollow men / We are the stuffed men

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The Waste Land‘Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis / vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri diceren

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The Love Song Of J. Alfred PrufrockLet us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etheriz

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Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages(The Dry Salvages—presumably les trois sauvages / — is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off th

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Rhapsody On A Windy NightTwelve o’clock. / Along the reaches of the street / Held in a lunar synthesis, / Whispering lunar in

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Ash WednesdayI / Because I do not hope to turn again / Because I do not hope / Because I do not hope to turn / De

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Four Quartets 1: Burnt NortonI / Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future, / And time future containe

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Four Quartets 4: Little GiddingI / Midwinter spring is its own season / Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, / Suspended in t

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Portrait Of A LadyThou hast committed— / Fornication: but that was in another country, / And besides, the wench is dea

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PreludesI / The winter evening settles down / With smell of steaks in passageways. / Six o’clock. / The burn

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Four Quartets 2: East CokerI / In my beginning is my end. In succession / Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, / Are re

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Journey Of The Magi‘A cold coming we had of it, / Just the worst time of the year / For a journey, and such a journey:

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GerontionThou hast nor youth nor age / But as it were an after dinner sleep / Dreaming of both. / Here I am,

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The Song Of The JelliclesJellicle Cats come out tonight, / Jellicle Cats come one come all: / The Jellicle Moon is shining br

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