T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, with Annotations (and other explanations) by Jonathan Vold

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173           The river's tent is broken; the last fingers of leaf
174           Clutch and sink into the wet bank.  The wind
175           Crosses the brown land, unheard.  The nymphs are departed.
176           Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.
177           The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,
178           Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends
179           Or other testimony of summer nights.  The nymphs are departed.
180           And their friends, the loitering heirs of City directors;
181           Departed, have left no addresses.
182           By the waters of Leman I sat down and wept . . .
183           Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song,
184           Sweet Thames, run softly, for I speak not loud or long.
185           But at my back in a cold blast I hear
186           The rattle of the bones, and chuckle spread from ear to ear.

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T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, with Annotations (and other explanations) by Jonathan Vold

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The Waste Land, by Thomas Stearns Eliot, 1922, as published in Poems, 1909-1925 (Faber 1925)

Annotations and other explanations, Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Jonathan Vold. All rights reserved.

Background photograph, Dead River at Illinois Beach State Park, Early Spring © 2006, 2013, 2014 by Jonathan Vold.

Au Lecteur (To the Reader), by Charles Baudelaire, 1867, translation © 2013, 2014 by Jonathan Vold.

Dans le Restaurant (In the Restaurant), by T. S. Eliot, 1920, translation © 2013, 2014 by Jonathan Vold.

El Desdichado (The Loser), by Gerard de Nerval, 1853, translation © 2013, 2014 by Jonathan Vold.

The Fire Sermon (Everything is Burning), by Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, 483 BC, translation © 2013, 2014 by Jonathan Vold.

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Dedication

To my own Vivienne, wherever you are:

... not to be found in my obituary
Or in memories draped
by the beneficent spider
Or under seals broken
by the lean solicitor
In my empty room












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