| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 18907 |
| QUOTATION: | I grow old . . . I grow old . . . I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (18881965), Anglo-American critic, poet. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (l. 120125). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Eliot Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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