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Poems: Hysteria

by T. S. Eliot Mr. ApollinaxConversation GalanteHysteria As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars…

Poems: The Hippopotamus

by T. S. Eliot Lune de MielDans le RestaurantThe Hippopotamus Similiter et omnes revereantur Diaconos, ut mandatum Jesu Christi; et Episcopum, ut Jesum Christum, existentem…

The Mercy: Poems

Author: Philip Levine Publisher: Knopf Philip Levine is a poet for people who've forgotten poetry and slipped into the meter and cadence of 9-to-5. Refreshingly narrative, his poems tell…

War Poems

Meditations on War     If these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king that led them to it . . . compiled by Erin Martin   Related Links National Poetry…

Poem: The Outlet

Poem 36 Poem 38 The Outlet My river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I'll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks, - Say, sea, Take…

Poem: In Vain

Poem 37 Poem 39 In Vain I CANNOT live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf The sexton keeps the key to, Putting up Our life, his porcelain, Like a cup…

Poem: Renunciation

Poem 38 Poem 40 Renunciation There came a day at summer's full Entirely for me; I thought that such were for the saints, Where revelations be. The sun, as common, went abroad, The…

Poem: Resurrection

Poem 40 Poem 42 Resurrection 'Twas a long parting, but the time For interview had come; Before the judgment-seat of God, The last and second time These fleshless lovers met, A heaven in…

Poem: Apocalypse

Poem 41 Poem 43 Apocalypse I'm wife; I've finished that, That other state; I'm Czar, I'm woman now: It's safer so. How odd the girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse! I think that…

Poem: The Wife

Poem 42 Poem 44 The Wife She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife. If aught she missed in her new day Of amplitude…