- 1. The Old Gumbie Cat
I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
Her coat is of the tabby kind, with tiger stripes and leopard spots.
All day she sits upon the stair or on the steps or on the mat;
She sits and sits and sits and sits-and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat!
...
- 2. 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
...
- 3. Portrait Of A Lady
Thou hast committed-
Fornication: but that was in another country,
And besides, the wench is dead.
The Jew of Malta.
...
- 4. Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages
- is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E.
coast of Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Salvages is pronounced
to rhyme with assuages. Groaner: a whistling buoy.)
...
- 5. Four Quartets 2: East Coker
I
In my beginning is my end. In succession
Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended,
...
- 6. Four Quartets 1: Burnt Norton
I
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
...
- 7. Conversation Galante
I observe: “Our sentimental friend the moon!
Or possibly (fantastic, I confess)
It may be Prester John's balloon
Or an old battered lantern hung aloft
...
- 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
...
by T. S. Eliot
