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Piss at the gable, the dead will congregate.
But separately. The women after dark,
Hunkering there a moment before bedtime,
The only time the soul was let alone,
The only time that face and body calmed
In the eye of heaven.

Grandmothers Teaching

© Alfred Austin

``Grandmother dear, you do not know; you have lived the old-world life,
Under the twittering eaves of home, sheltered from storm and strife;
Rocking cradles, and covering jams, knitting socks for baby feet,
Or piecing together lavender bags for keeping the linen sweet:
Daughter, wife, and mother in turn, and each with a blameless breast,
Then saying your prayers when the nightfall came, and quietly dropping to rest.

Malcolm's Katie: A Love Story - Part II.

© Isabella Valancy Crawford

O, Love builds on the azure sea,
And Love builds on the golden sand;
And Love builds on the rose-wing'd cloud,
And sometimes Love builds on the land.

Haunted

© William Schwenck Gilbert

Haunted? Ay, in a social way

By a body of ghosts in dread array;

Bluebeard: Sonnet VI

© Edna St. Vincent Millay

This door you might not open, and you did;

So enter now, and see for what slight thing

The Fiddler

© Lola Ridge

In a little Hungarian cafe
Men and women are drinking
Yellow wine in tall goblets.

The Farewell to Clarimonde

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

Adieu, Romauld! But thou canst not forget me.
Although no more I haunt thy dreams at night,
Thy hungering heart forever must regret me,
And starve for those lost moments of delight.

The Elves

© Denise Levertov

Elves are no smaller
than men, and walk
as men do, in this world,
but with more grace than most,
and are not immortal.

The Beggar's Soliloquy

© George Meredith

I

Now, this, to my notion, is pleasant cheer,

The House Of Dust: Part 03: 04: Illicit

© Conrad Aiken

She played this tune. And in the middle of it
Abruptly broke it off, letting her hands
Fall in her lap. She sat there so a moment,
With shoulders drooped, then lifted up a rose,
One great white rose, wide opened like a lotos,
And pressed it to her cheek, and closed her eyes.

Kate-A-Whimsies, John-A-Dream

© William Ernest Henley

Kate-a-Whimsies, John-a-Dream
Still debating, still delay,
And the worlds a ghost that gleams
Wavers vanishes away!

Morning

© Ovid

Already over the sea from her old spouse she comes,
the blonde goddess whose frosty wheels bring day.
Why do you hurry, Aurora? Hold off, so may the birds
shed ritual blood each year for Memnon's shade.

The House Of Dust: Complete (Long)

© Conrad Aiken

. . . Parts of this poem have been printed in "The North American
Review, Others, Poetry, Youth, Coterie, The Yale Review". . . . I am
indebted to Lafcadio Hearn for the episode called "The Screen Maiden"
in Part II.