T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
The Boston Evening Transcript was a daily afternoon newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts, published from July 24, 1830, to April 30, 1941. It is most noted for publishing am early version of the poem “America The Beautiful” by Katharine Lee Bates on November 19, 1904. In Eliot’s day, it was rather ba...
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."