T. S. Eliot Hair Poems
- 1. The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo
Questa fiamma staria senza più scosse.
Ma perciocchè giammai di questo fondo
... - 2. Sweeney Erect
And the trees about me,
Let them be dry and leafless; let the rocks
Groan with continual surges; and behind me
Make all a desolation. Look, look, wenches!
... - 3. Rhapsody On A Windy Night
Twelve o'clock.
Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
... - 4. Preludes
I
The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
... - 5. Portrait Of A Lady
Thou hast committed-
Fornication: but that was in another country,
And besides, the wench is dead.
The Jew of Malta.
... - 6. Mr. Apollinax
When Mr. Apollinax visited the United States
His laughter tinkled among the teacups.
I thought of Fragilion, that shy figure among the birch-trees,
And of Priapus in the shrubbery
... - 7. La Figlia Che Piange
O quam te memorem virgo…
Stand on the highest pavement of the stair-
Lean on a garden urn-
... - 8. Burbank With A Baedeker: Bleistein With A Cigar
Tra-la-la-la-la-la-laire-nil nisi divinum stabile
est; caetera fumus-the gondola stopped, the old
palace was there, how charming its grey and pink-
goats and monkeys, with such hair too!-so the
... - 9. Ash Wednesday
I
Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
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