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Mr. Apollinax

© Thomas Stearns Eliot

WHEN Mr. Apollinax visited the United States
His laughter tinkled among the teacups.
I thought of Fragilion, that shy figure among the birch-trees,
And of Priapus in the shrubbery

Mélange Adultère de Tout

© Thomas Stearns Eliot

EN Amerique, professeur;
En Angleterre, journaliste;
Cest à grands pas et en sueur
Que vous suivrez à peine ma piste.

Dans le Restaurant

© Thomas Stearns Eliot

Mais alors, vieux lubrique, à cet âge...
Monsieur, le fait est dur.
Il est venu, nous peloter, un gros chien;
Moi javais peur, je lai quittée à mi-chemin.
Cest dommage.
Mais alors, tu as ton vautour!

ILS ont vu les Pays-Bas, ils rentrent à Terre Haute;
Mais une nuit dété, les voici à Ravenne,
A laise entre deux draps, chez deux centaines de punaises;
La sueur aestivale, et une forte odeur de chienne.

Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar

© Thomas Stearns Eliot

Tra-la-la-la-la-la-lairenil nisi divinum stabile est; caetera fumusthe gondola
stopped, the old palace was there, how charming its grey and pinkgoats and
monkeys, with such hair too!so the countess passed on until she came through the
little park, where Niobe presented her with a cabinet, and so departed.

Morning at the Window

© Thomas Stearns Eliot

THEY are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.

Mr. Eliots Sunday Morning Service

© Thomas Stearns Eliot

POLYPHILOPROGENITIVE
The sapient sutlers of the Lord
Drift across the window-panes.
In the beginning was the Word.

Growltiger's Last Stand

© Thomas Stearns Eliot

GROWLTIGER was a Bravo Cat, who lived upon a barge;
In fact he was the roughest cat that ever roamed at large.
From Gravesend up to Oxford he pursued his evil aims,
Rejoicing in his title of "The Terror of the Thames."

Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages

© Thomas Stearns Eliot

(The Dry Salvagespresumably les trois sauvagesis 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.)

Mungojerrie And Rumpelteazer

© Thomas Stearns Eliot

Then the family would say: "It's that horrible cat!
It was Mungojerrie--or Rumpelteazer!"-- And most of the time
they left it at that.

Sweeney Erect

© Thomas Stearns Eliot

And the trees about me,
Let them be dry and leafless; let the rocks
Groan with continual surges; and behind me
Make all a desolation. Look, look, wenches!

Old Deuteronomy

© Thomas Stearns Eliot

Old Deuteronomy lies on the floor
Of the Fox and French Horn for his afternoon sleep;
And when the men say: "There's just time for one more,"
Then the landlady from her back parlour will peep
And say: "New then, out you go, by the back door,
For Old Deuteronomy mustn't be woken--

The Ad-Dressing Of Cats

© Thomas Stearns Eliot

You've read of several kinds of Cat,
And my opinion now is that
You should need no interpreter
To understand their character.

Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat

© Thomas Stearns Eliot

He gives one flash of his glass-green eyes
And the signal goes "All Clear!"
And we're off at last for the northern part
Of the Northern Hemisphere!

Four Quartets 2: East Coker

Dawn points, and another day
Prepares for heat and silence. Out at sea the dawn wind
Wrinkles and slides. I am here
Or there, or elsewhere. In my beginning.

Gus: The Theatre Cat

Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door.
His name, as I ought to have told you before,
Is really Asparagus. That's such a fuss
To pronounce, that we usually call him just Gus.

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!

Mr. Mistoffelees

And we all say: OH!
Well I never!
Was there ever
A Cat so clever
As Magical Mr. Mistoffelees!

Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town

His visits are occasional to the Senior Educational
And it is against the rules
For any one Cat to belong both to that
And the Joint Superior Schools.

The Hippopotamus

Similiter et omnes revereantur Diaconos, ut mandatum Jesu Christi; et Episcopum, ut
Jesum Christum, existentem filium Patris; Presbyteros autem, ut concilium Dei et
conjunctionem Apostolorum. Sine his Ecclesia non vocatur; de quibus suadeo vos sic
habeo.