[1.] Prufrock: 1917 : The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; Portrait of a lady ; Preludes ; Rhapsody on a windy night ; Morning at the window ; The Boston Evening Transcript ; Aunt Helen ; Cousin Nancy ; Mr. Apollinax ; Hysteria ; Conversation Galante ; La Figlia che Piange -- [2.] Poems: 1920 : Gerontion ; Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a cigar ; Sweeney erect ; A cooking egg ; Le directeur ; M�elange adult�ere de tout ; Lune de Miel ; The hippopotamus ; Dans le restaurant ; Whispers of immortality ; Mr. Eliot's Sunday morning service ; Sweeney among the nightingales -- [3.] The Waste Land: 1922 : The burial of the dead ; A game of chess ; The fire sermon ; Death by water ; What the thunder said ; Notes on 'The Waste Land' -- [4.] The hollow men: 1925 -- [5.] Ash Wednesday: 1930 : Because I do not hope to turn again ; Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree ; At the first turning of the second stair ; Who walked between the violet and the violet ; If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent ; Although I do not hope to turn again -- [6.] Ariel poems : Journey of the Magi, 1927 ; A song for Simeon, 1928 ; Animula, 1929 ; Marina, 1930 ; The cultivation of Christmas trees, 1954 -- [7.] Unfinished poems : Sweeney Agonistes ; Fragment of a prologue ; Fragment of an agon ; Coriolan ; Triumphal march, 1931 ; Difficulties of a statesman -- [8.] Minor poems : Eyes that last I saw in tears ; The wind sprang up at four o'clock ; Five-finger exercises ; Lines to a Persian cat ; Lines to a Yorkshire terrier ; Lines to a duck in the park ; Lines to Ralph Hodgson Esqre. ; Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg ; Landscapes ; New Hampshire ; Virginia ; Usk ; Rannoch, by Glencoe ; Cape Ann ; Lines for an old man -- [9.] Choruses from "The Rock": 1934 : The eagle soars in the summit of heaven ; Thus your fathers were made ; The word of the Lord came unto me, saying ; There are those who would build the temple ; O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart ; It is hard for those who have never known persecution ; In the beginning God created the world ; O Father we welcome your words ; Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears ; You have seen the house build, you have seen it adorned -- [10.] Four quartets : Burnt Norton, 1935 ; East Coker, 1940 ; The dry salvages, 1941 ; Little Gidding, 1942 --[11.] Occasional verses : Defense of the islands ; A note on war poetry ; To the Indians who died in Africa ; To Walter de la Mare ; A dedication to my wife.

This volume contains the works Eliot personally selected to be preserved.