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Conrad Potter Aiken's Poetry, by first line

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  • The House Of Dust: {Complete}
    The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light.
    The trees grow dark: the shadows lean to the east:
    2724 lines
  • The Carver
    See, as the carver carves a rose,
    A wing, a toad, a serpent's eye,
    28 lines
  • Nocturne Of Remembered Spring
    I.
    Moonlight silvers the tops of trees,
    124 lines
  • Morning Song Of Senlin
    It is morning, Senlin says, and in the morning
    When the light drips through the shutters like the dew,
    64 lines, 1 comment
  • Hatteras Calling
    Southeast, and storm, and every weathervane
    shivers and moans upon its dripping pin,
    24 lines
  • Evening Song Of Senlin
    It is moonlight. Alone in the silence
    I ascend my stairs once more,
    36 lines, 1 comment
  • Beloved, Let Us Once More Praise The Rain
    Beloved, let us once more praise the rain.
    Let us discover some new alphabet,
    26 lines
  • A Letter From Li Po
    Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind
    announces autumn, and the equinox
    434 lines, 1 comment
  • The Charnel Rose: A Symphony
    She rose in moonlight, and stood, confronting sea,
    With her bare arms uplifted,
    352 lines
  • Senlin: A Biography Pt. 01:His Dark Origins
    1
    Senlin sits before us, and we see him.
    303 lines
  • Senlin: A Biography Pt 02: His Futile Preoccupations
    1
    I am a house, says Senlin, locked and darkened,
    477 lines
  • Senlin:A Biography: Pt 03 His Cloudy Destiny
    1
    Senlin sat before us and we heard him.
    84 lines
  • Improvisations: Light and Snow: 01
    The girl in the room beneath
    Before going to bed
    9 lines
  • Discordants
    I. (Bread and Music)
    Music I heard with you was more than music,
    52 lines
  • All Lovely Things
    All lovely things will have an ending,
    All lovely things will fade and die,
    16 lines, 4 comments
  • Chiaroscuro Rose
    Fill your bowl with roses: the bowl, too, have of crystal.
    Sit at the western window. Take the sun
    38 lines
  • Rose and Murray
    After the movie, when the lights come up,
    He takes her powdered hand behind the wings;
    41 lines
  • Violet Moore and Bert Moore
    He thinks her little feet should pass
    Where dandelions star thickly grass;
    24 lines
  • Zudora
    Here on the pale beach, in the darkness;
    With the full moon just to rise;
    32 lines, 2 comments
  • The Cornet
    When she came out, that white little Russian dancer,
    With her bright hair, and her eyes, so young, so young,
    20 lines
  • Dancing Adairs
    Behold me, in my chiffon, gauze, and tinsel,
    Flitting out of the shadow into the spotlight,
    20 lines
  • The Room
    Through that window—all else being extinct
    Except itself and me—I saw the struggle
    26 lines
  • The Window
    She looks out in the blue morning
    and sees a whole wonderful world
    36 lines
  • Evensong
    I
    In the pale mauve twilight, streaked with orange,
    115 lines
  • Miracles
    Twilight is spacious, near things in it seem far,
    And distant things seem near.
    33 lines
  • Red Is The Color Of Blood
    Red is the color of blood, and I will seek it:
    I have sought it in the grass.
    67 lines, 1 comment
  • Improvisations: Light And Snow: 05
    When I was a boy, and saw bright rows of icicles
    In many lengths along a wall
    8 lines
  • Knock On The Door
    Knock on the door, and you shall have an answer!
    Open the heavy walls to set me free,
    8 lines
  • Chance Meetings
    In the mazes of loitering people, the watchful and furtive,
    The shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves,
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • The Dance Of Life
    Gracious and lovable and sweet,
    She made his jaded pulses beat
    86 lines
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