Literature
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Preludes by T.S. Eliot
I The winter evening settles downWith smell of steaks in passageways.Six o’clock.The burnt-out ends of smoky days.And now a gusty…
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Rhapsody on a Windy Night by T.S. Eliot
An illustration for the story Rhapsody on a Windy Night by the author T.S. EliotTwelve o’clock.Along the reaches of the…
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Sweeney Among the Nightingales by T.S. Eliot
[Greek text inserted here]Apeneck Sweeney spreads his kneesLetting his arms hang down to laugh,The zebra stripes along his jawSwelling to…
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Sweeney Erect by T.S. Eliot
And the trees about me,Let them be dry and leafless; let the rocksGroan with continual surges; and behind meMake all…
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The Boston Evening Transcript by T.S. Eliot
The readers of the Boston Evening TranscriptSway in the wind like a field of ripe corn.When evening quickens faintly in…
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The Hippopotamus by T.S. Eliot
Similiter et omnes revereantur Diaconos, utmandatum Jesu Christi; et Episcopum, ut JesumChristum, existentem filium Patris; Presbyterosautem, ut concilium Dei et…
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was Eliot’s first published poem in 1915. It was originally titled, Prufrock Among…
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The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
The Waste Land (1922) was Eliot’s cerebral, sparse, and haunting vision of society after the First World War. Eliot’s poem…
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Whispers of Immortality by T.S. Eliot
Webster was much possessed by deathAnd saw the skull beneath the skin;And breastless creatures under groundLeaned backward with a lipless…
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A Warm Day in Winter by Paul Laurence Dunbar
A Warm Day in Winter is a formative example of Dunbar’s dialect verses.“Sunshine on de medders,Greenness on de way;Dat ‘s…
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