Author: T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888 - 1965)

Text Compilations

• Collected Poems 1909-1935
• Four Quartets
• Journey of the Magi
• Landscapes
• Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
• Poems
• Poems written in Early Youth
• Preludes
• Prufrock and Other Observations
• The Waste Land

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• A cold coming we had of it (from Journey of the Magi) * - (Edward) Benjamin Britten (Canticle IV (The Journey of the Magi))
• A cold coming we had of it (from Journey of the Magi) * - István Anhalt (Journey of the Magi)
• Anthem (The dove descending breaks the air) - Igor Stravinsky *
• Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees - Gary Bachlund (Sweeney among the nightingales)
• Ash on and old man's sleeve (from Four Quartets - 4. Little Gidding) *
• At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless (from Four Quartets - 1. Burnt Norton) * - John Mitchell (At the still point)
• At the still point (At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless) (from Four Quartets - 1. Burnt Norton) - John Mitchell *
• Burnt Norton () (from Four Quartets - 1. Burnt Norton) - Paul William Whear [x] *
• Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] * (Bustopher Jones: The Cat about Town)
• Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] * - Alan Rawsthorne (Bustopher Jones: The Cat about Town)
• Bustopher Jones: The Cat about Town (Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones) (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] *
• Bustopher Jones: The Cat about Town (Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones) (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) - Alan Rawsthorne [x] *
• Canticle IV (The Journey of the Magi) (A cold coming we had of it) (from Journey of the Magi) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten *
• Canticle V (The Death of Saint Narcissus) (Come under the shadow of this gray rock) (from Poems written in Early Youth) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten FRE *
• Cape Ann (O quick quick quick, quick hear the song-sparrow) (from Landscapes) *
• Cape Ann (O quick quick quick, quick hear the song-sparrow) (from Landscapes) - Thomas Adès, Denis ApIvor, Violet Balestreri Archer, Lloyd E. Burritt, John Frederick Paynter, John (Whitley) Purser, Gregg Smith, Alan Thomas, Douglas Young *
• Children's voices in the orchard (from Landscapes) * - Robin Holloway (Children's voices)
• Children's voices in the orchard (from Landscapes) * (New Hampshire)
• Children's voices in the orchard (from Landscapes) * - Thomas Adès, Denis ApIvor, Violet Balestreri Archer, Lloyd E. Burritt, George James Burt, Jani Christou, Derek Healey, John Frederick Paynter, John (Whitley) Purser, Gregg Smith, Alan Thomas, Douglas Young (New Hampshire)
• Children's voices (Children's voices in the orchard) (from Landscapes) - Robin Holloway *
• Come under the shadow of this gray rock (from Poems written in Early Youth) FRE * - (Edward) Benjamin Britten (Canticle V (The Death of Saint Narcissus))
• Death by Water (Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead) (from The Waste Land - 4. Death by Water) - Jani Christou ITA
• Do not suddenly break the branch, or (from Landscapes) * (Usk)
• Do not suddenly break the branch, or (from Landscapes) * - Thomas Adès, Denis ApIvor, Lloyd E. Burritt, John Frederick Paynter, John (Whitley) Purser, Gregg Smith, Alan Thomas, Douglas Young (Usk)
• East Coker (O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark) (from Four Quartets - 2. East Coker) - Derek Bourgeois *
• En Amerique, professeur (from Poems) (Mélange adultère de tout)
• En Amerique, professeur (from Poems) - Jani Christou (Mélange adultère de tout)
• Eyes that last I saw in tears (Eyes that last I saw in tears)
• Eyes that last I saw in tears (Eyes that last I saw in tears) - Jani Christou, John Gruen, Robin Holloway, John McCabe
• Eyes that last I saw in tears (Eyes that last I saw in tears)
• Eyes that last I saw in tears - Jani Christou, John Gruen, Robin Holloway, John McCabe (Eyes that last I saw in tears)
• Five-finger exercises (The songsters of the air repair) [x] *
• Five-finger exercises (The songsters of the air repair) - Paul Reif [x] *
• For an Old Man (The tiger in the tiger-pit) (from Collected Poems 1909-1935) - David Leo Diamond *
• Garlic and sapphires in the mud (from Four Quartets - 1. Burnt Norton) *
• Growltiger's Last Stand (Growltiger was a Bravo Cat) (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] *
• Growltiger's Last Stand (Growltiger was a Bravo Cat) (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) - Humphrey Searle [x] *
• Growltiger was a Bravo Cat (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] * (Growltiger's Last Stand)
• Growltiger was a Bravo Cat (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] * - Humphrey Searle (Growltiger's Last Stand)
• Gus is the Cat (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] * (Gus: The Theatre Cat)
• Gus is the Cat (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] * - Alan Rawsthorne (Gus: The Theatre Cat)
• Gus: The Theatre Cat (Gus is the Cat) (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] *
• Gus: The Theatre Cat (Gus is the Cat) (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) - Alan Rawsthorne [x] *
• Here is a place of disaffection (from Four Quartets - 1. Burnt Norton) *
• Here the crow starves, here the patient stag (from Landscapes) * (Rannoch, by Glencoe)
• Here the crow starves, here the patient stag (from Landscapes) * - Thomas Adès, Denis ApIvor, Lloyd E. Burritt, John Frederick Paynter, John (Whitley) Purser, Gregg Smith, Alan Thomas, Douglas Young (Rannoch, by Glencoe)
• His soul stretched tight across the skies (His soul stretched tight across the skies) (from Preludes) - Howard Swanson
• His soul stretched tight across the skies (from Preludes) - Howard Swanson (His soul stretched tight across the skies)
• His soul stretched tight across the skies (from Preludes) - Stanley Grill (Prelude IV)
• I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river (from Four Quartets - 3. The Dry Salvages) *
• I have a Gumbie Cat (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] * (The Old Gumbie Cat)
• I have a Gumbie Cat (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] * - Alan Rawsthorne (The Old Gumbie Cat)
• In my beginning is my end. In succession (from Four Quartets - 2. East Coker) *
• In order to arrive there (from Four Quartets - 2. East Coker) *
• I sometimes wonder if that is what Krishna meant (from Four Quartets - 3. The Dry Salvages) *
• Jellicle Cats come out tonight (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] * (The Song of the Jellicles)
• Jellicle Cats come out tonight (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] * - Denis ApIvor, Dorothy Howell, Beryl Price, Alan Rawsthorne (The Song of the Jellicles)
• Journey of the Magi (A cold coming we had of it) (from Journey of the Magi) - István Anhalt *
• Lady, whose shrine stands on the promontory (from Four Quartets - 3. The Dry Salvages) *
• La figlia che piange (Stand on the highest pavement of the stair) (from Prufrock and Other Observations)
• La figlia che piange (Stand on the highest pavement of the stair) (from Prufrock and Other Observations) - Robin Holloway
• Let us go then, you and I (The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock)
• Let us go then, you and I - Patricia Wallinga (The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock)
• Lines for an Old Man (The tiger in the tiger-pit) (from Collected Poems 1909-1935) *
• Little Gidding () (from Four Quartets - 4. Little Gidding) - Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir [x]
• Macavity's a Mystery Cat (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] * (Macavity: The Mystery Cat)
• Macavity's a Mystery Cat (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] * - Humphrey Searle (Macavity: The Mystery Cat)
• Macavity: The Mystery Cat (Macavity's a Mystery Cat) (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] *
• Macavity: The Mystery Cat (Macavity's a Mystery Cat) (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) - Humphrey Searle [x] *
• Mélange adultère de tout (En Amerique, professeur) (from Poems)
• Mélange adultère de tout (En Amerique, professeur) (from Poems) - Jani Christou
• Midwinter spring is its own season (from Four Quartets - 4. Little Gidding) *
• New Hampshire (Children's voices in the orchard) (from Landscapes) *
• New Hampshire (Children's voices in the orchard) (from Landscapes) - Thomas Adès, Denis ApIvor, Violet Balestreri Archer, Lloyd E. Burritt, George James Burt, Jani Christou, Derek Healey, John Frederick Paynter, John (Whitley) Purser, Gregg Smith, Alan Thomas, Douglas Young *
• O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark (from Four Quartets - 2. East Coker) * - Derek Bourgeois (East Coker)
• O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark (from Four Quartets - 2. East Coker) * - John Mitchell (Shall I say it again?)
• Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] * (Old Deuteronomy)
• Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] * - Alan Rawsthorne (Old Deuteronomy)
• Old Deuteronomy (Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time) (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] *
• Old Deuteronomy (Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time) (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) - Alan Rawsthorne [x] *
• O quick quick quick, quick hear the song-sparrow (from Landscapes) * (Cape Ann)
• O quick quick quick, quick hear the song-sparrow (from Landscapes) * - Thomas Adès, Denis ApIvor, Violet Balestreri Archer, Lloyd E. Burritt, John Frederick Paynter, John (Whitley) Purser, Gregg Smith, Alan Thomas, Douglas Young (Cape Ann)
• O quick quick quick, quick hear the song-sparrow (from Landscapes) * - Robin Holloway (Voices of birds)
• Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead (from The Waste Land - 4. Death by Water) ITA - Jani Christou (Death by Water)
• Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead (from The Waste Land - 4. Death by Water) ITA - Sydney Burkinshaw (Phlebas)
• Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead (from The Waste Land - 4. Death by Water) ITA - Donald MacInnis (The Waste Land)
• Phlebas (Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead) (from The Waste Land - 4. Death by Water) - Sydney Burkinshaw ITA
• Prelude I (The winter evening settles down) (from Preludes) - Stanley Grill, Wayne Peterson
• Prelude II (The morning comes to consciousness) (from Preludes) - Stanley Grill
• Prelude III (You tossed a blanket from the bed) (from Preludes) - Stanley Grill
• Prelude IV (His soul stretched tight across the skies) (from Preludes) - Stanley Grill
• Rannoch, by Glencoe (Here the crow starves, here the patient stag) (from Landscapes) *
• Rannoch, by Glencoe (Here the crow starves, here the patient stag) (from Landscapes) - Thomas Adès, Denis ApIvor, Lloyd E. Burritt, John Frederick Paynter, John (Whitley) Purser, Gregg Smith, Alan Thomas, Douglas Young *
• Red river, red river (from Landscapes) * - Robin Holloway (Red river)
• Red river, red river (from Landscapes) * (Virginia)
• Red river, red river (from Landscapes) * - Thomas Adès, Denis ApIvor, Violet Balestreri Archer, Lloyd E. Burritt, Jani Christou, John Frederick Paynter, John (Whitley) Purser, Karol Rathaus, Gregg Smith, Alan Thomas, Douglas Young (Virginia)
• Red river (Red river, red river) (from Landscapes) - Robin Holloway *
• Rose garden () (from Four Quartets - 1. Burnt Norton) - Zbigniew Bargielski POL [x]
• Różany ogród () - Zbigniew Bargielski [x] *
• Shall I say it again? (O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark) (from Four Quartets - 2. East Coker) - John Mitchell *
• Sin is Behovely, but (from Four Quartets - 4. Little Gidding) * - Sofia Gubaidulina
• Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat (There's a whisper down the line at 11.39) (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) *
• Skimbleshanks: the railway cat (There's a whisper down the line at 11.39) (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) - Rokus de Groot *
• So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years (from Four Quartets - 2. East Coker) *
• Stand on the highest pavement of the stair (from Prufrock and Other Observations) (La figlia che piange)
• Stand on the highest pavement of the stair (from Prufrock and Other Observations) - Robin Holloway (La figlia che piange)
• Sweeney among the nightingales (Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees) - Gary Bachlund
• The chill ascends from feet to knees (from Four Quartets - 2. East Coker) * - Sofia Gubaidulina
• The dove descending breaks the air * - Igor Stravinsky (Anthem)
• The dove descending breaks the air * - Jonathan Harvey (The dove descending)
• The dove descending breaks the air * - Arthur Vincent Lourié (The dove)
• The dove descending (The dove descending breaks the air) - Jonathan Harvey *
• The dove (The dove descending breaks the air) - Arthur Vincent Lourié *
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Let us go then, you and I)
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Let us go then, you and I) - Patricia Wallinga
• The morning comes to consciousness (from Preludes) - Stanley Grill (Prelude II)
• The morning comes to consciousness (The morning comes to consciousness) (from Preludes) - Einojuhani Rautavaara, Howard Swanson
• The morning comes to consciousness (from Preludes) - Einojuhani Rautavaara, Howard Swanson (The morning comes to consciousness)
• The Naming of Cats (The Naming of Cats) (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] *
• The Naming of Cats (The Naming of Cats) (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) - Donald Howard Keats, Alan Rawsthorne [x] *
• The Naming of Cats (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] * (The Naming of Cats)
• The Naming of Cats (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] * - Donald Howard Keats, Alan Rawsthorne (The Naming of Cats)
• The Old Gumbie Cat (I have a Gumbie Cat) (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] *
• The Old Gumbie Cat (I have a Gumbie Cat) (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) - Alan Rawsthorne [x] *
• There are three conditions which often look alike (from Four Quartets - 4. Little Gidding) *
• There's a whisper down the line at 11.39 (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) * (Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat)
• There's a whisper down the line at 11.39 (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) * - Rokus de Groot (Skimbleshanks: the railway cat)
• The Song of the Jellicles (Jellicle Cats come out tonight) (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) [x] *
• The Song of the Jellicles (Jellicle Cats come out tonight) (from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) - Denis ApIvor, Dorothy Howell, Beryl Price, Alan Rawsthorne [x] *
• The songsters of the air repair [x] * (Five-finger exercises)
• The songsters of the air repair [x] * - Paul Reif (Five-finger exercises)
• The tiger in the tiger-pit is not more irritable than I (from Collected Poems 1909-1935) * (Lines for an Old Man)
• The tiger in the tiger-pit (from Collected Poems 1909-1935) * - David Leo Diamond (For an Old Man)
• The tiger in the tiger-pit (from Collected Poems 1909-1935) * (Lines for an Old Man)
• The Waste Land (Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead) (from The Waste Land - 4. Death by Water) - Donald MacInnis ITA
• The wind sprang up at four o' clock (The wind sprang up at four o'clock) - Jani Christou *
• The wind sprang up at four o'clock * - Jani Christou (The wind sprang up at four o' clock)
• The winter evening settles down (from Preludes) - Stanley Grill, Wayne Peterson (Prelude I)
• The winter evening settles down (The winter evening settles down) (from Preludes) - Einojuhani Rautavaara, Howard Swanson
• The winter evening settles down (from Preludes) - Einojuhani Rautavaara, Howard Swanson (The winter evening settles down)
• The wounded surgeon plies the steel (The wounded surgeon plies the steel) (from Four Quartets - 2. East Coker) - Graham Whettam *
• The wounded surgeon plies the steel (from Four Quartets - 2. East Coker) * - Graham Whettam (The wounded surgeon plies the steel)
• Time and the bell have buried the day (from Four Quartets - 1. Burnt Norton) * - John Gruen (Time and the bell)
• Time and the bell have buried the day (from Four Quartets - 1. Burnt Norton) * - Sofia Gubaidulina
• Time and the bell (Time and the bell have buried the day) (from Four Quartets - 1. Burnt Norton) - John Gruen *
• Time present and time past (Time present and time past) (from Four Quartets - 1. Burnt Norton) - John Mitchell *
• Time present and time past (from Four Quartets - 1. Burnt Norton) * - John Mitchell (Time present and time past)
• To communicate with Mars, converse with spirits (from Four Quartets - 3. The Dry Salvages) *
• Usk (Do not suddenly break the branch, or) (from Landscapes) *
• Usk (Do not suddenly break the branch, or) (from Landscapes) - Thomas Adès, Denis ApIvor, Lloyd E. Burritt, John Frederick Paynter, John (Whitley) Purser, Gregg Smith, Alan Thomas, Douglas Young *
• Virginia (Red river, red river) (from Landscapes) *
• Virginia (Red river, red river) (from Landscapes) - Thomas Adès, Denis ApIvor, Violet Balestreri Archer, Lloyd E. Burritt, Jani Christou, John Frederick Paynter, John (Whitley) Purser, Karol Rathaus, Gregg Smith, Alan Thomas, Douglas Young *
• Voices of birds (O quick quick quick, quick hear the song-sparrow) (from Landscapes) - Robin Holloway *
• Wer ist der dritte () - Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Vogel (Text: after T. S. Eliot) [x]
• We shall not cease from exploration (What we call the beginning is often the end) (from Four Quartets - 4. Little Gidding) - John Mitchell *
• What is the late November doing (from Four Quartets - 2. East Coker) *
• What we call the beginning is often the end (from Four Quartets - 4. Little Gidding) * - John Mitchell (We shall not cease from exploration)
• Where is there an end of it, the soundless wailing (from Four Quartets - 3. The Dry Salvages) * - John Mitchell (Where is there an end of it?)
• Where is there an end of it? (Where is there an end of it, the soundless wailing) (from Four Quartets - 3. The Dry Salvages) - John Mitchell *
• Who is the third who walks always beside you? (from The Waste Land - 5. What the Thunder Said) GER
• Words move, music moves (from Four Quartets - 1. Burnt Norton) *
• You tossed a blanket from the bed (from Preludes) - Stanley Grill (Prelude III)
• You tossed a blanket from the bed (You tossed a blanket from the bed) (from Preludes) - Howard Swanson
• You tossed a blanket from the bed (from Preludes) - Howard Swanson (You tossed a blanket from the bed)

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