COLLECTED POEMS ~909-1962 By T. S. Eliot verse COLLECTED POEMS 1909-1935 FOUR QUARTETS THE COMPLETE POEMS AND PLAYS 1909-1950 THE CULTIVATION OF CHRISTMAS TREES COLLECTED POEMS 1909-1962 selected verse THE WASTE LAND AND OTHER POEMS children's verse OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS plays MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL THE FAMILY REUNION THE COCKTAIL PARTY THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK THE ELDER STATESMAN lrterary cr!tzcism THE SACRED WOOD SELECTED ESSAYS THE USE OF POETRY AND THE USE OF CRITlCISM ESSAYS ON ELIZABETHAN DRAMA ON POETRY AND POETS socUll criticism THE IDEA OF A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY NOTES TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF CULTURE CHRISTIANITY AND CULTURE translation ANABASIS a poem by St-fohn PerS6 T. S. Eliot COLLECTED POEMS 9- 9 6 19 0 1 2 Harcourt~ Brace & World, Inc. New York Copyright 1930, 2940, 1941, 1942, 1943, © 1958, 1962, 1963 by T S Eltot Copyright 1954, © 1956, 1959, 1963 by Thomas Stearns Eliot Copynght 1934, 1936 by Harcourt, Brace & Wotld, Illc All nghts reserved No part of tlUB book may be reproduced in any form or by any mechanteal means, mcludmg m~meograph and tape recorder, wzthout perm~$!on In wntzng from the publtshel. B.664 Ltbrary of Congress Catalog Card Number 6J-21424- Manufactured In the Umted States of Arne/tea by H. Wolff CONTENTS 1 PRUFROCK-1 917 The Love Song of J. Alfred Pruftock Portrait of a Lady Preludes Rhapsody on a Windy Ntght 19 111 oming at the W mdow 20 The Boston Evemng TranscrIpt 21 Aunt Helen 27- C ousin Nancy 23 1111' Apollinax 24 Hysteria 25 Conoe1sation Galante 26 La Fzglla che Piange 27 POEMS-1920 Getontion Butbank with a Baedeket: Bleistein with a Cigar Sweeney Erect A Cooking Egg Le Directeur Melange Adultere de Tout Lune de Miel The Hippopotamus Dans le Restaurant 43 Whtspers of Immortality 45 Mr. Eliots Sunday Morning Service 47 Sweeney Among the Nightingales 49 THE WASTE LAND-1922 I. The Burial of the Dead 53 56 II. A Game of Chess 60 III. The Fire Sermon 65 IV. Death by Water 66 V. What the Thunder Said 70 NOTES ON 'The Waste Land: 71 THE HOLLOW MEN-1925 ASH· WEDNESDAY-1930 I. Because I do not hope to turn again II. Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree III. At the first turning of the second stair IV. Who walked between the violet and the violet V. If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent VI. Although 1 do not hope to turn again 97 ARIEL POEMS 99 Journey of the Magi-1927 101 A Song for Simeon-1928 103 Animula-1929 105 MarinOr-1930 107 The Cultivatton of Christmas Trees-1954 109 UNFINISHED POEMS 111 Sweeney Agonistes 111 FRAGMENT OF A PROLOGUE 118 FRAGMEN T OF AN AGON 125 Coriolan 125 1. TRIUMPHAL MARCH-1931 127 II. DIFFICULTIES OF A STATESMAN 131 MINOR POEMS 133 Eyes that last I saw in tears 134 The wind sprang up at four o'clock 135 Five-finger exercises 135 1. LINES TO A PERSIAN CAT 135 I I. LIN EST 0 A YO R 11: S H IRE T ERR I E R 136 IX 1. LIN EST 0 A D U C 11: IN THE P A II 11: 136 I V. LIN EST 0 R A L ;p H HOD G SON E S Q R E • 137 V. LINES FOR CUSCUSCARAWAY AND MIRZA MURAD ALI BEG 138 Landscapes 1.38 I NEW HAMPSHIRE 1.39 II. VIRGINIA 140 III. USK 141 IV. RANNOCH, BY GLENCOE 142 V CAPE ANN 143 Lines for an Old Man 145 CHORUSES FROM 'THE ROCK'-1934 147 I. The Eagle soars in the summit of HeaDen II Thus your fathel's were made III. The Word of the LOR D came unto me, saying IV. There are those who would budd the Temple 1.59 V. 0 Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent inten tion and impure heart VI. It tS hard for those who have never known perse- cution 162 VII. In the beginning GOD created the world 165 VIII. 0 Father we welcome your words 1.67 IX. Son of Man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears 169 X. You have seen the house built, you ha:De seen it adorned 173 F 0 U R QUA R T E T S 175 Burnt Norton-1935 182 East Coker-1940 191 The Dry Salvages-1941 200 Little Gidding-1942 211 0 C CAS ION A L V E R S E S 213 Defense of the Islands 215 A Note on War Poetry 217 To the Indians Who Died tn Africa 219 To Walter de la Mare 221 A Dedication to My Wife