Portrait of a Lady

Portrait of a Lady is a poem by T. S. Eliot, first published in September 1915 in Others: A Magazine of the New Verse, March 1916 in Others: An Anthology of the New Verse, in February 1917 (without the epigraph) in The New Poetry: An Anthology, and finally in his 1917 collection of poems, Prufrock and Other Observations. The poem's title is widely seen to be derived from the novel by Henry James with the same title. The poem employs as an epigraph the famous quotation from the play by Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, "Thou hast committed - / Fornication: but that was in another country, / And besides, the wench is dead." The poem is one of the two Boston poems written by Eliot, the other being The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock....