help!  My husband keeps partially quoting a poem, and I'd like to find
the whole thing:  ". . .let us go then, you and I, to where the - - -
meets the sky, to - - -, and speak of Michaelangelo."  Not much, I
know, but I would sure appreciate the whole thing.

The poem that you are seeking is the "Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock"
by TS Eliot, which starts:

Let us go then, you and I,
2     When the evening is spread out against the sky
3     Like a patient etherized upon a table;
4     Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
5     The muttering retreats
6     Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
7     And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
8     Streets that follow like a tedious argument
9     Of insidious intent
10   To lead you to an overwhelming question ...
11   Oh, do not ask, "What is it?"
12   Let us go and make our visit.
13   In the room the women come and go
14   Talking of Michelangelo.


You can find the whole poem here:

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/eliot1.html

Search strategy on Google "Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=%22Love+Song+of+Alfred+J+Prufrock%22

I already was familiar with the poem and its title

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Clarification of Answer by tehuti-ga on 06 Aug 2002 16:51 PDT

Happy to help!  It is a superb poem, one of my great favourites.  I
remember being totally bowled over by it at the age of 13 (far too
long ago!!!), when we had to study it in English class.  The images
are incredible: the fog pictured as some animal; the oh so accurate
picture of social unease "And I have known the eyes already, known
them all - / The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase, / And when
I am formulated, sprawling on a pin, / When I am pinned and wriggling
on the wall, / Then how should I begin / to spit out the butt-ends of
my days and ways?"; and the lament of the old man that finishes the
poem.

Sorry, I'm getting carried away!

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Request for Answer Clarification by gramma-ga on 06 Aug 2002 22:41 PDT

Good evening, tehuti-ga.  Thanks for the expanded answer.  I remember
the same kind of feelings about TSE the first time I read the
Wasteland.  A truly amazing poet with a marvelous grasp of imagery. 
Thanks again.  Incidentally, my husband was mightily impressed by the
research!  Wish you the best.

Thank you SO much.  I was expecting an answer, but not this quickly. 
I'm really delighted, and he will be, too.