Gloucester's T.S. Eliot

Known as the Lad Tom

By: Charles Giuliano - Feb 09, 2017

Gloucester's T.S. Eliot

On posh Eastern Point
Upscale Gloucester
Harbor views
Summer cottages
His first 20 years
On from St. Louis
To catch the breeze
Something in the heir
Young Tom
Shuffled to and fro
Later as renowned
T.S. Eliot
Thinking of Michelangelo
What lingered
Informing the poetry
Of 18 Edgemoor Road
While quite grand
In its shingled way
Modest compared to
Ramparts or Beauport
Hammond’s Castle
Across the bay
While Eliot
To the manner born
Formed his
Autocratic style
So much better
In every sense
Than the rest of us
Toilers of the deep