Authors: T. S. Eliot

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Complete Poems and Plays

T. S. ELIOT

The Complete Poems
and Plays

CONTENTS

Title Page

COLLECTED POEMS 1909–1962

P
RUFROCK
, 1917

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

P
OEMS
, 1920

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

T
HE
W
ASTE
L
AND
, 1922

I.
The Burial of the Dead

II.
A Game of Chess

III.
The Fire Sermon

IV.
Death by Water

V.
What the Thunder said

Notes on the Waste Land

T
HE
H
OLLOW
M
EN
, 1925

A
SH-
W
EDNESDAY
, 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 I do not hope to turn again

A
RIEL
P
OEMS

Journey of the Magi, 1927

A Song for Simeon, 1928

Animula, 1929

Marina, 1930

The Cultivation of Christmas Trees, 1954

U
NFINISHED
P
OEMS

Sweeney Agonistes

Fragment of a Prologue

Fragment of an Agon

Coriolan

I. Triumphal March

II. Difficulties of a Statesman

M
INOR
P
OEMS

Eyes that last I saw in tears

The wind sprang up at four o’clock

Five-Finger Exercises

I.
Lines to a Persian Cat

II.
Lines to a Yorkshire Terrier

III.
Lines to a Duck in the Park

IV.
Lines to Ralph Hodgson Esqre.

V.
Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg

Landscapes

I.
New Hampshire

II.
Virginia

III.
Usk

IV.
Rannoch, by Glencoe

V.
Cape Ann

Lines for an Old Man

C
HORUSES FROM ‘
T
HE
R
OCK’
, 1934

I.
The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven

II.
Thus your fathers were made

III.
The Word of the lord came unto me, saying

IV.
There are those who would build the Temple

V.
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart

VI.
It is hard for those who have never known persecution

VII.
In the beginning
GOD
created the world

VIII.
O Father we welcome your words

IX.
Son of Man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears

X.
You have seen the house built, you have seen it adorned

F
OUR
Q
UARTETS

Burnt Norton, 1935

East Coker, 1940

The Dry Salvages, 1941

Little Gidding, 1942

O
CCASIONAL
V
ERSES

Defence of the Islands

A Note on War Poetry

To the Indians who Died in Africa

To Walter de la Mare

A Dedication to my Wife

OLD POSSUM’S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS

The Naming of Cats

The Old Gumbie Cat

Growltiger’s Last Stand

The Rum Tum Tugger

The Song of the Jellicles

Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer

Old Deuteronomy

The Pekes and the Pollicles

Mr. Mistoffelees

Macavity: the Mystery Cat

Gus: the Theatre Cat

Bustopher Jones: the Cat about Town

Skimbleshanks: the Railway Cat

The Ad-dressing of Cats

Cat Morgan Introduces Himself

PLAYS

Murder in the Cathedral

The Family Reunion

The Cocktail Party

The Confidential Clerk

The Elder Statesman

APPENDIX
POEMS WRITTEN IN EARLY YOUTH

A Fable for Feasters

A Lyric: ‘If Time and Space, as Sages say’

Song: ‘If space and time, as sages say’

At Graduation 1905

Song: ‘When we came home across the hill’

Before Morning

Circe’s Palace

On a Portrait

Song: ‘The moonflower opens to the moth’

Nocturne

Humouresque (after J. Laforgue)

Spleen

Ode

The Death of Saint Narcissus

Index of First Lines of Poems

About the Author

Also by T. S. Eliot

Copyright

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