Nature and Elements

April is the cruellest month, breeding

The nightingales are singing near

At whatever time the deed took place— MACAVITY WASN’T THERE!

He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare:

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,

Clear the air! clean the sky! wash the wind!

I should have been a pair of ragged claws

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the

A cold coming we had of it,

Tenants of the house,

Here I am, an old man in a dry month

So, while the light fails

So, while the light fails

Ash on an old man’s sleeve

I think that the river

I think that the river

O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,

Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree

And it’s a hard rain’s a gonna fall.

I know why the caged bird sings!

He needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature: he looked inwards, and found her there.

‘To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.’

‘The dog did nothing in the night-time.’

The giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared.