Poems

Spleen Sunday: this satisfied procession Of definite Sunday faces; Bonnets, silk hats, and conscious graces In repetition that displaces Your mental self-possession By this unwarranted digression. […]

Sweeney Among the Nightingales Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees Letting his arms hang down to laugh, The zebra stripes along his jaw Swelling to maculate giraffe. […]

The Ad-Dressing of Cats You’ve read of several kinds of Cat, And my opinion now is that You should need no interpreter To understand their character. […]

The Boston Evening Transcript The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript Sway in the wind like a field of ripe corn. When evening quickens faintly in […]

The Hippopotamus Similiter et omnes revereantur Diaconos, ut mandatum Jesu Christi; et Episcopum, ut Jesum Christum, existentem filium Patris; Presbyteros autem, ut concilium Dei et conjunctionem […]

The Hollow Men Mistah Kurtz-he dead A penny for the Old Guy I We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece […]

The Journey of the Magi ‘A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long […]

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock S’io credesse chc mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa Gamma staria senza piu scosse. […]

The Naming of Cats The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn’t just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I’m […]

The Old Gumbie Cat I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots; Her coat is of the tabby kind, with tiger stripes and […]