The Waste Land

T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

By T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Sibylla ti theleis; respondebat illa: apothanein thelo."

T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Gerontion Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.

T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

By T. S. Eliot To Jean Verdenal 1889-1915 Certain of these poems appeared first in "Poetry" and "Others" Contents The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Portrait o...

T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

I "All talk on modern poetry, by people who know," wrote Mr. Carl Sandburg in _Poetry_, "ends with dragging in Ezra Pound somewhere.

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.