Poem by Thomas Stearns Eliot

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.

Evening, lights, and tea!
Children and cats in the alley;
Dejection unable to rally
Against this dull conspiracy.

And Life, a little bald and gray,
Languid, fastidious, and bland,
Waits, hat and gloves in hand,
Punctilious of tie and suit
(Somewhat impatient of delay)
 On the doorstep of the Absolute.

1. Song
2. Mr. Apollinax
3. Cousin Nancy
4. La Figlia Che Piange
5. Hysteria

Ernest Dowson Spleen ("I was not sorrowful, I could not weep")

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