Conrad Potter Aiken's Poetry, by popularity

• Multitudes Turn In Darkness

  The half-shut doors through which we heard that music
  Are softly closed. Horns mutter down to silence,

  17 lines
• Prelude

  As evening falls,
  And the yellow lights leap one by one

  39 lines
• Melody In A Restaurant

  The cigarette smoke loops and slides above us,
  Dipping and swirling as the waiter passes.

  34 lines
• Illicit

  Of what she said to me that night—no matter.
  The strange thing came next day.

  75 lines
• Haunted Chambers

  The lamp-lit page is turned, the dream forgotten;
  The music changes tone, you wake, remember

  40 lines
• Counterpoint: Two Rooms

  He, in the room above, grown old and tired;
  She, in the room below, his floor her ceiling,

  52 lines
• The House Of Dust: Part 03: 02:

  You read—what is it, then that you are reading?
  What music moves so silently in your mind?

  140 lines
• The House Of Dust: Part 03: 07:

  You see that porcelain ranged there in the window—
  Platters and soup-plates done with pale pink rosebuds,

  93 lines
• The House Of Dust: Part 03: 09:

  We sit together and talk, or smoke in silence.
  You say (but use no words) 'this night is passing

  64 lines
• The House Of Dust: Part 03: 11:

  What shall we talk of? Li Po? Hokusai?
  You narrow your long dark eyes to fascinate me;

  73 lines
• The House Of Dust: Part 03: 12:

  Now, when the moon slid under the cloud
  And the cold clear dark of starlight fell,

  302 lines
• The House Of Dust: Part 03: 03:

  The lamplit page is turned, the dream forgotten;
  The music changes tone, you wake, remember

  40 lines
• The House Of Dust: Part 03: 05:

  The cigarette-smoke loops and slides above us,
  Dipping and swirling as the waiter passes;

  34 lines
• The House Of Dust: Part 03: 06:

  This is the house. On one side there is darkness,
  On one side there is light.

  71 lines
• The House Of Dust: Part 03: 08:

  Wind blows. Snow falls. The great clock in its tower
  Ticks with reverberant coil and tolls the hour:

  58 lines
• The House Of Dust: Part 03: 13:

  The half-shut doors through which we heard that music
  Are softly closed. Horns mutter down to silence.

  17 lines
• Shaemus

  We will go no more to Shaemus, at the Nip,
  for sly innuendo and an Oporto Flip,

  39 lines
• The House Of Dust: Part 02: 02:

  More towers must yet be built—more towers destroyed—
  Great rocks hoisted in air;

  76 lines
• The House Of Dust: Part 02: 03

  The warm sun dreams in the dust, the warm sun falls
  On bright red roofs and walls;

  29 lines
• The House Of Dust: Part 02: 11:

  Snow falls. The sky is grey, and sullenly glares
  With purple lights in the canyoned street.

  47 lines
• The House Of Dust: Part 03: 01:

  As evening falls,
  And the yellow lights leap one by one

  39 lines
• The House Of Dust: Part 03: 10:

  From time to time, lifting his eyes, he sees
  The soft blue starlight through the one small window,

  159 lines
• The House Of Dust: Part 01: 02:

  One, from his high bright window in a tower,
  Leans out, as evening falls,

  28 lines
• The House Of Dust: Part 01: 04:

  Up high black walls, up sombre terraces,
  Clinging like luminous birds to the sides of cliffs,

  39 lines
• The House Of Dust: Part 01: 05:

  The snow floats down upon us, mingled with rain . . .
  It eddies around pale lilac lamps, and falls

  46 lines
• The House Of Dust: Part 01: 06:

  Over the darkened city, the city of towers,
  The city of a thousand gates,

  147 lines
• The House Of Dust: Part 01: 07:

  Midnight; bells toll, and along the cloud-high towers
  The golden lights go out . . .

  87 lines
• The House Of Dust: Part 02: 01:

  The round red sun heaves darkly out of the sea.
  The walls and towers are warmed and gleam.

  28 lines
• The House Of Dust: Part 02: 05:

  Round white clouds roll slowly above the housetops,
  Over the clear red roofs they flow and pass.

  41 lines
• The House Of Dust: Part 02: 06:

  She turned her head on the pillow, and cried once more.
  And drawing a shaken breath, and closing her eyes,

  66 lines

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