The Boston Evening Transcript
By T. S. Eliot
The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript
Sway in the wind like a field of ripe corn.
When evening quickens faintly in the street,
Wakening the appetites of life in some
And to others bringing the Boston Evening Transcript,
I mount the steps and ring the bell, turning
Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld,
If the street were time and he at the end of the street,
And I say, "Cousin Harriet, here is the Boston Evening Transcript.
Copyright Credit: T. S. Eliot, “The Boston Evening Transcript” from Poetry 7, no. 1 (October 1915): 21.
Source: Poetry (October 1915)