by T. S. Eliot
Wolfe, Humbert: 161, 181
Wolpe, Berthold: 483
Wolpe, Margaret: 75
Wood, Mrs. Henry: East Lynne 70
Wood, J. G.: The Boy’s Own Book of Natural History 208 (elephant), 213
(opossum), 219
(whale); The Illustrated Natural History 59
(bandicoot); Wood’s Animal Kingdom 213
(cinnamon bear)
Woolf, Virginia: “good criticism” of Ash-Wednesday 422
Wordsworth, William: Resolution and Independence 289; Stepping Westward 145;
The Tables Turned 228;
To the Cuckoo 197
Yeats, W. B.: 203; The Cat and the Moon 41–42;
The Lake Isle of Innisfree 178;
Michael Robartes bids his Beloved be at Peace 222;
On Being Asked for a War Poem 178;
The Shadowy Waters 156
Index of Titles and First Lines
A Boy who went to bed one night II 150
‘A cold coming we had of it I 101
A Man ſo various that he ſeem’d to be I 313
A man’s destination is his own village I 216
A Practical Possum once lived in a Pye I 299
A street-piano, garrulous and frail I 235
Abschied zur Bina II 232
Across the painted colonnades I 249
Across the room the shifting smoke I 257
The Ad-dressing of Cats II 32
Admonished by the sun’s inclining ray I 332
After the torchlight red on sweaty faces I 68
After the turning of the inspired days I 271
Afternoon I 267
An Agony in the Garret I 262
Airs of Palestine, No. 2 I 276
Allons nous promener, si tu veux II 229
Along the city streets I 243
Although I do not hope to turn again I 96
Always the August evenings come I 246
AMAZ’D astronomers did late descry I 312
America Discover’d II 261
Among a crowd of tenuous dreams, unknown I 232
Among my marionettes I find I 238
Among the débris of the year I 248
Among the smoke and fog of a December afternoon I 10
AMONG the various Middle Classes II 177
An old man sat baldheaded, ’twas Christmas in Bombay II 194
Anabasis II 79
Animula I 105
The Anniversary I 291
Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees I 51
April is the cruellest month, breeding I 55
Are you a- II 161
Around her fountain which flows I 231
As I was walking down the street II 153
As she laughed I was aware I 26
Ash-Wednesday I 85
At a point between Edgware and Morden II 215
At the first turning of the second stair I 91
Aunt Helen I 23
Bacchus and Ariadne: 2nd Debate between the Body and Soul I 257
Back head be full of aches II 166
Ballade of the Fox Dinner I 233
Ballade pour la grosse Lulu I 260
Balls to you said Mrs. Sonnenschien II 286
Be not astonished at this point to see II 165
Be sure that Possums can’t refuse II 186
Because I do not hope to turn again I 87
Before Morning I 231
Bellegarde I 290
Beware, my boy, the aged maid II 179
Billy M’Caw: The Remarkable Parrot I 304
The Blameless Sister of Publicola II 290
The Bonnie Bonnie Braes of Glengoofie II 171
The ‘Boston Evening Transcript’ I 22
The Builders I 287
Burbank crossed a little bridge I 34
Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar I 34
The Burial of the Dead I 55
The Burnt Dancer I 262
Burnt Norton I 179
Bustopher Jones: The Cat about Town II 27
Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones II 27
Cape Ann I 148
Cat Morgan Introduces Himself II 35
Cat Morgan’s Apology II 35
THE CATALOGUE OF SHIPMATES II 260
THE CATALOGUE OF SHIPS II 260
Cat’s Prologue II 165
Ce n’est pas pour qu’on se dégoute I 277
Chandos Clerihews II 182
Children’s voices in the orchard I 144
Choruses from ‘The Rock’ I 151
Circe’s Palace I 231
Clerihews II II 189
Clerihews III II 190
Clerihews IV I 200
The Columbiad II 269
Columbo he lived over in Spain II 269
COME, Glorious Rabbitt, how long wilt thou slumber II 287
Come under the shadow of this gray rock I 270
Convalescence II II 192
Convalescents II 191
Conversation Galante I 27
Convictions (Curtain Raiser) I 238
A Cooking Egg I 38
Coriolan I 129
The Country Walk I 296
Cousin Nancy I 24
CRY what shall I cry? I 133
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees I 109
CUST! whose loud martial oaths did once proclaim II 225
Dans le Restaurant I 45
DE LA MARE delicate I 309
DEAR ALISON, I fear I can- II 181
Dear Charlotte, Hoping you are better II 152
Dear little flower, lift up your head II 150
Dear Madam, Thank you for your letter. I am grieved to find I 307
Dearest Mary II 155
Dearest Mr. Groucho Marx II 202
Death by Water I 67
The Death of the Duchess I 281
The Death of Saint Narcissus I 270
Dedication II I 319
A Dedication to my Wife I 219
Defence of the Islands I 213
DEIPNOSOPHISTIC II 263
Difficulties of a Statesman I 133
Le Directeur I 40
Dirge I 285
Do I know how I feel? Do I know what I think? I 269
Do not suddenly break the branch, or I 146
The Dry Salvages I 193
East Coker I 185
Easter: Sensations of April I 241
Elegy I 284
Embarquement pour Cythère I 246
En Amérique, professeur I 41
The Engine I 274
Entretien dans un parc I 256
Exequy I 286
An Exhortation II 179
Eyes that last I saw in tears I 139
FABER! of thy great exploits ’twas not least II 226
A Fable for Feasters I 224
Fair stood the wind for France I 298
The fate of the Naughty Boy II 150
The Fire Sermon I 62
Fireside II 147
First Caprice in North Cambridge I 235
First Debate between the Body and Soul I 239
First we had a couple of feelers down at Tom’s place I 324
Five-Finger Exercises I 141
For below a voice did answer, sweet in its youthful tone II 254
For the hour that is left us Fair Harvard, with thee I 242
Four Quartets I 177
Fourth Caprice in Montparnasse I 253
Fragment of an Agon I 121
Fragment of a Prologue I 115
Fragments II 285
‘Fresca couplets’ II 387
Full fathom five your Bleistein lies I 285
A Game of Chess I 58
GEOFFREY! who once did walk the earth like Jove II 225
Gerontion I 31
God from a Cloud to Spender spoke I 276
Goldfish (Essence of Summer Magazines) I 246
Good Postman, leave this at the door II 159
Graham of Claverhouse II 200
Grizabella: The Glamour Cat I 306
Growltiger’s Last Stand II 8
Growltiger was a Bravo Cat, who travelled on a barge II 8
Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door II 25
Gus: The Theatre Cat II 25
Hasty Ned, the Negro Hustler II 150
He Do the Police in Different Voices I 324 / 328
He said: this universe is very clever I 259
He who in ceaseless labours took delight II 202
Here I am, an old man in a dry month I 31
Here the crow starves, here the patient stag I 147
Hidden under the heron’s wing I 275
The Hippopotamus I 43
His note is harsh and adenoid II 196
The Hollow Men I 79
How about Pereira? I 115
How delightful to meet Mr. Hodgson! I 142
How the Tall Girl and I Play Together I 316
How the Tall Girl’s Breasts Are I 318
How to Pick a Possum II 211
How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot! I 143
Humouresque I 237
Hysteria I 26
I am asked by my friend, the Man in White Spats I 298
I am the Resurrection and the Life I 272
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river I 193
I don’t want to see no Shakespeare or Napoleon II 200
I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots II 6
I have halted my horse by the tree of the doves II 129
I’ll carry you off I 121
I know a nice girl named Valeria II 290
I love a tall girl. When we stand face to face I 316
I love to stroll II 196
I observe: ‘Our sentimental friend the moon! I 27
I once was a Pirate what sailed the ’igh seas II 35
I saw their lives curl upward like a wave I 257
I thought I saw an antique ship II 148
I thought I saw a banker’s clerk II 148
I thought I saw a brindle bull II 148
I thought I saw a chimpanzee II 148
I thought I saw a elephant II 147
I thought I saw a kangaroo II 149
I thought I saw a little bird II 148
I thought I saw a log fi-ER II 149
I thought I saw a pair of shoes II 149
I was lunching one day at The Princess Louise I 294
I would come in a shirt of hair I 265
If space and time, as sages say I 223
If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent I 94
If Time and Space, as Sages say I 223
Ill done and undone I 287
Ils ont vu les Pays-Bas, ils rentrent à Terre Haute I 42
Im schönen Binagarten II 232
In a brown field stood a tree I 141
In the Cage I 328
In the Department Store I 268
In England, long before that royal Mormon I 224
In my beginning is my end. In succession I 185
In Respect of Felines I 307
In silent corridors of death I 275
In springtime, when the year was new I 292
In the beginning GOD created the world I 168
‘In old Manila harbour, the Yankee wardogs lay II 254
Inscriptions to Sir Geoffrey Faber on the occasion of his knighthood I 312
Inside the gloom I 254
Interlude: in a Bar I 257
Interlude in London I 260
Introspection I 273
Invitation to all Pollicle Dogs & Jellicle Cats II 162
‘Issues from the hand of God, the simple soul’ I 105
It is hard for those who have never known persecution I 166
It is not right for likes of me I 291
It’s our Mr. Eliot what started me writin’ I 308
Jellicle Cats come out to-night II 12
The Jim Jum Bears I 302
Journey of the Magi I 101
K. B. b. b. b. k. II 252
Kierkegaard and Rilke shouting in the lava II 289
King Bolo’s big black basstart kuwheen II 254
King Bolo’s big black basstart queen II 255
King Bolo’s big black bassturd kween II 252
King Bolo’s big black bassturd kween II 252
King Bolo’s big black bassturd kween II 252
King Bolo’s Big Black Bastard Queen II 268
King Bolo’s big black kukquheen II 253
La Figlia Che Piange I 28
Ladies, on whom my attentions have waited I 252
Ladies, the moon is on its way! I 246
Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree I 89
Landscapes I 144
The Lass wha Wrapt me in her Plaidie II 171
Le garçon délabré qui n’a rien à faire I 45
Leaping pleasure passes tunefully I 290
Let quacks, empirics, dolts debate I 311
Let these memorials of built stone—music’s I 213
Let us go then, you and I I 5
Let us proceed to make a walk II 231
Lift her up tenderly II 188
LINES Addressed to Geoffrey Faber Esquire, on his Return from a Voyage to the Bahamas, and the Parts about New Spain I 308
Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg I 143
Lines for an Old Man I 149
Lines to a Duck in the Park I 142
Lines to a Persian Cat I 141
Lines to Ralph Hodgson Esqre. I 142
Lines to a Yorkshire Terrier I 141
Little Gidding I 201
The Little Passion: From ‘An Agony in the Garret’ I 262
Long may this Glass endure, and brim with wine I 314
Lord, the Roman hyacinths are blooming in bowls and I 103
‘Love seeketh not Itself to please I 319
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock I 5
The Love Song of St. Sebastian I 265
Lune de Miel I 42
A Lyric I 223
Macavity: The Mystery Cat II 23
Macavity’s a Mystery Cat; he’s called the Hidden Paw II 23
Malheur à la malheureuse Tamise I 40
Mandarins I 243
Many thanks for your letter and card which details II 167
The Marching Song of the Pollicle Dogs I 303
Marin! je te connais, rentier du cinquième I 279
Marina I 107
Mélange Adultère de Tout I 41
Midwinter spring is its own season I 201
Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt I 23
Miss Mary Trevelyan II 187
Miss Nancy Ellicott I 24
Mr. Apollinax I 25
Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service I 49
Mr. Geoffrey Davies II 190
Mr. Geoffrey Faber II 190
Mr. Geoffrey Faber II 191
Mr. Geoffrey Faber II 192
Mr. Geoffrey Faber II 192
Mr. Geoffrey Faber’s II 191
Mr. Hilderic Cousens II 183
Mr. John Hayward II 189
Mr. Maurice Bowra II 198
Mr. Maurice B. Reckitt II 182
Mr. Mistoffelees II 21
Mr. Philip Mairet II 182
Mr. Possum wishes that his name was Tristram Shandy II 166
Mr. Pugstyles: The Elegant Pig I 288
Montpelier Row I 309
Morgan, the Commissionaire Cat II 35
Morgan Tries Again I 308
Morning at the Window I 21
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer II 14
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer were a very notorious couple of cats II 14
Muse of the rye and ginger ale I 233
My good friend Postman, do not falter II 159
My head aches, and a drowsy numbness pains II 220
The Naming of Cats II 5
New Hampshire I 144
No peevish winter wind shall chill I 319
Nocturne I 234
Not the expression of collective emotion I 215
> A Note on War Poetry I 215
Notes on the Waste Land I 72
Now Chris Columbo lived in Spain II 259
Now my Idea of Bliss II 169
NOW when they’d been 4 months at Sea II 261
Now while Columbo & his Crew II 263
Now while Columbo and his men II 250
Now while our heroes were at sea II 251
O Father we welcome your words I 171
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart I 165
O lord, have patience I 275
O Postman! take a little skiff II 158
O Postman, will you quickly run II 157
O quick quick quick, quick hear the song-sparrow I 148
O stalwart SUSSEX postman, who is II 160
O wot avails the noble race II 178
Ode (‘For the hour that is left us Fair Harvard, with thee’) I 242
Ode (‘Tired. | Subterrene’) I 280
Ode to a Roman Coot II 220
Of all the beasts that God allows I 296
Of the Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles II 18
Oh dae ye ken the turdie lads II 194
Oh, how well I remember the old Bull and Bush I 304
Oh little voices of the throats of men I 264
Old Deuteronomy II 16
Old Deuteronomy’s lived a long time II 16
The Old Gumbie Cat II 6
On every sultry afternoon I 247
On a Portrait I 232
One Day Columbo & His Men II 262
One day Columbo & the Queen II 267
One day Columbo went below II 253
One of my marionettes is dead I 237
Opera I 236
The O’Possum Strikes Back II 215
Our prayers dismiss the parting shade I 284
Paint me a cavernous waste shore I 36
Paysage Triste I 267
The Pekes and the Pollicles II 18
Perhaps you will have been appal- II 158
Persistent lovers will repair I 286
Petit Epître I 277
Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead I 67
Pipit sate upright in her chair I 38
Poet’s Corner II 147
Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats I 294
Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats! II 162
Polyphiloprogenitive I 49
Poor Poony now is meek and mild II 175
Portrait of a Lady I 10
Possum now wishes to explain his silence II 185