Thomas Stearns Eliot Poems

'A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
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I

In my beginning is my end. In succession
Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended,
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I
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
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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.
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'A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
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Webster was much possessed by death
And saw the skull beneath the skin;
And breastless creatures under ground
Leaned backward with a lipless grin.
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You've read of several kinds of Cat,
And my opinion now is that
You should need no interpreter
To understand their character.
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Thou hast committed—
Fornication: but that was in another country,
And besides, the wench is dead.
The Jew of Malta.
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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all out exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
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I
In my beginning is my end. In succession
Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended,
Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place
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