Poems by Conrad Aiken
Senlin: A Biography Pt. 01:His Dark Origins
... One by one. Is a voice heard while the shadows still are long, ...
Improvisations: Light And Snow: 03
... And breathing darkness I think only of the long scythe of time ...
Improvisations: Light And Snow: 06
... How will it be, lady, when there is none left to remember you ...
The House Of Dust: Part 01: 03:
... And thought how the streets were hoarse with a tide of people, ...
Counterpoint: Two Rooms
... They climb to her heart, they break and flower in beauty, ...
Nightmare
... I plunge through the curtain, run through dark to the street, ...
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 13:
... . . We open our eyes and stare at the coiling darkness, ...
Dancing Adairs
... . . O sweet and soothing end for a life of whirling! ...
Prelude
... Of vague desires, vague memories, and half-forgotten pain ...
Senlin:A Biography: Pt 03 His Cloudy Destiny
... "He sought to touch you, and found he could not reach you,- ...
Sonata in Pathos
... .And I walk under freezing elms, whose branches writheLike tortured corals against a clear green sky ...
Chance Meetings
... And silent, I answer 'You too--I have known you,--I love you!--' ...
Zudora
... She hears the dark sea flowing, and sees his eyes ...
