ISBN: 9781458896940

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Portrait of a Lady Thou hast committed - Fornication: but that was in another country, And besides, the wench is dead. The Jew Of Malta. Among the smoke and fog of a December afternoon You have the scene arrange itself as it will seem to do - With " I have saved this afternoon for you "; And four wax candles in the darkened room, Four rings of light upon the ceiling overhead, An atmosphere of Juliet's tomb Prepared for all the things to be said, or left unsaid. We have been, let us say, to hear the latest Pole Transmit the Preludes, through his hair and finger-tips. " So intimate, this Chopin, that I think his soul Should be resurrected only among friends Some two or three, who will not touch the bloom That is rubbed and questioned in the concert room." - And so the conversation slips Among velleities and carefully caught regrets Through attenuated tones of violins Mingled with remote cornets And begins. " You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends, (For indeed I do not love it. you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!) To find a friend who has these qualities, Who has, and gives Those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you - Without these friendships - life, what cauchemar! " Among the windings of the violins And the ariettes Of cracked cornets Inside my brain a dull tom-tom begins Absurdly hammering aprelude of its own, Capricious monotone That is at least one definite " false note." - Let us take the air, in a tobacco trance, Admire the monuments Discuss the late events, Correct our watches by the public clocks. Then sit for half an hour and drink our bocks. Now that l. Books History~~General Poems~~George-Eliot General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1458896943

[EAN: 9781458896940], Neubuch, [PU: General Books LLC], 1458896943 BRAND NEW *This item is printed on demand.*** , Poems, Thomas Stearns Eliot