Poems by Conrad Aiken
The House Of Dust: Complete (Long)
... Rose to the walls in a cloud,And the lips moved faintly, and the eyes, and the calm hands stirred ...
The House Of Dust: Introduction
... . . . I am indebted to Lafcadio Hearn for the episode called "The Screen Maiden" ...
The House Of Dust: Part 01: 01: The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light
... We crowd through the streets in a dazzle of pallid lamplight, ...
The House Of Dust: Part 01: 02: One, from his high bright window in a tower
... . . There, in the high bright window he dreams, and sees ...
The House Of Dust: Part 01: 03: One, where the pale sea foamed at the yellow sand
... And thought how the streets were hoarse with a tide of people, ...
The House Of Dust: Part 01: 04: Up high black walls, up sombre terraces
... And some of them steadily glowed, and some soon vanished, ...
The House Of Dust: Part 01: 05: The snow floats down upon us, mingled with rain
... We diverge from clamorous streets to streets that are silent ...
The House Of Dust: Part 01: 06: Over the darkened city, the city of towers
... 'The wind hurls blows at the rain-starred glistening windows, ...
The House Of Dust: Part 01: 07: Midnight; bells toll, and along the cloud-high towers
... She clutches the pillow, she gasps for breath, she screams ...
The House Of Dust: Part 01: 08: The white fog creeps from the cold sea over the city
... . . It seems an enormous sleeper, within whose brain ...
The House Of Dust: Part 02: 01: The round red sun heaves darkly out of the sea
... We rub the darkness from our eyes,And face our thousand devious secret mornings ...
The House Of Dust: Part 02: 02: The Fulfilled Dream
... . . He lowered his eyes to the stones, he walked more slowly ...
The House Of Dust: Part 02: 03: Interlude
... The sun seems warmer, the winding street more bright, ...
The House Of Dust: Part 02: 04: Nightmare
... I plunge through the curtain, run through dark to the street, ...
The House Of Dust: Part 02: 05: Retrospect
... . . And the fountain dwindles, the sunlight seems to pale ...
