The Riddle

I dressed a lot of persons

I patched clothes to many others

The rich as well as the poor

I took off thorns

To the sick I pierced boils

I also pierced plenty of ears

Most people need me

They can’t do without me

I adorned too many brides

I made their grooms look handsome

So that they please their admirers

I protected the miserable

I covered and wormed them

With the suitable cloth

I cared a lot for the wrecked

I provided them with food in plenty

I realized later on

That I was doing only good

But as if I was digging in water

No profit coming in return

From the ungrateful man

Yet I kept accomplishing my duty

What I said is an example

I took it from our rich repertory

All the words I’ve used

Are about my doings

And those of the needle

Which remains naked.

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Poems in English 

• Sweeney among the Nightingales by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• Rhapsody on a Windy Night by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• Preludes by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• Portrait of a Lady by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• Old Deuteronomy by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• Mungojerrie And Rumpelteazer by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• Mr. Mistoffelees by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• Mr. Apollinax by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• Morning at the Window by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• Mr. Apollinax by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• Morning at the Window by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• Lune de Miel by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• Le Directeur by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• La Figlia che Piange by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• Journey Of The Magi by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• Hysteria by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• Gus: The Theatre Cat by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• Growltiger’s Last Stand by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)
• Gerontion by T. S. Eliot by Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot)

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