First linesT. S. Eliot

  1. “A cold coming we had of it, Journey of the Magi
  2. Among a crowd of tenuous dreams, unknown On a Portrait
  3. Among the smoke and fog of a December afternoon Portrait of a Lady
  4. Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees Sweeney Among the Nightingales
  5. April is the cruellest month, breeding The Waste Land
  6. Around her fountain which flows Circe’s Palace
  7. Because I do not hope to turn again Ash-Wednesday
  8. Burbank crossed a little bridge Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar
  9. En Amerique, professeur; Mélange Adultère de Tout
  10. For the hour that is left us Fair Harvard, with thee, Ode
  11. Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Gerontion
  12. I observe: “Our sentimental friend the moon! Conversation Galante
  13. If space and time, as sages say, A Lyric
  14. Ils ont vu les Pays-Bas, ils rentrent à Terre Haute; Lune de Miel
  15. In England, long before that royal Mormon A Fable for Feasters
  16. “Issues from the hand of God, the simple soul” Animula
  17. Le garçon délabré qui n’a rien à faire Dans le Restaurant
  18. Let us go then, you and I, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
  19. Lord, the Roman hyacinths are blooming in bowls and A Song for Simeon
  20. Malheur à la malheureuse Tamise! Le Directeur
  21. Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt, Aunt Helen
  22. Miss Nancy Ellicott Cousin Nancy
  23. One of my marionettes is dead Humoresque
  24. Paint me a cavernous waste shore Sweeney Erect
  25. Pipit sate upright in her chair A Cooking Egg
  26. Polyphiloprogenitive Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service
  27. Romeo, grand sérieux, to importune Nocturne
  28. Stand on the highest pavement of the stair⁠— La Figlia Che Piange
  29. Sunday: this satisfied procession Spleen
  30. The broad-backed hippopotamus The Hippopotamus
  31. The moonflower opens to the moth, Song
  32. The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript The Boston Evening Transcript
  33. The winter evening settles down Preludes
  34. They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens, Morning at the Window
  35. Tired Ode
  36. Twelve o’clock. Rhapsody on a Windy Night
  37. We are the hollow men The Hollow Men
  38. Webster was much possessed by death Whispers of Immortality
  39. What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands Marina
  40. When Mr. Apollinax visited the United States Mr. Apollinax
  41. When we came home across the hill Song
  42. While all the East was weaving red with gray, Before Morning

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