First linesT. S. Eliot

1. Among the smoke and fog of a December afternoon Portrait of a Lady
2. Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees Sweeney Among the Nightingales
3. Burbank crossed a little bridge Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar
4. En Amerique, professeur; Mélange Adultère de Tout
5. Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Gerontion
6. I observe: “Our sentimental friend the moon! Conversation Galante
7. Ils ont vu les Pays-Bas, ils rentrent à Terre Haute; Lune de Miel
8. Le garçon délabré qui n’a rien à faire Dans le Restaurant
9. Let us go then, you and I, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
10. Malheur à la malheureuse Tamise! Le Directeur
11. Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt, Aunt Helen
12. Miss Nancy Ellicott Cousin Nancy
13. Paint me a cavernous waste shore Sweeney Erect
14. Pipit sate upright in her chair A Cooking Egg
15. Polyphiloprogenitive Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service
16. Stand on the highest pavement of the stair⁠— La Figlia Che Piange
17. The broad-backed hippopotamus The Hippopotamus
18. The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript The Boston Evening Transcript
19. The winter evening settles down Preludes
20. They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens, Morning at the Window
21. Twelve o’clock. Rhapsody on a Windy Night
22. We are the hollow men The Hollow Men
23. Webster was much possessed by death Whispers of Immortality
24. When Mr. Apollinax visited the United States Mr. Apollinax

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