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Conrad Potter Aiken's Poetry, by title

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  • A Letter From Li Po
    Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind
    announces autumn, and the equinox
    434 lines, 1 comment
  • All Lovely Things
    All lovely things will have an ending,
    All lovely things will fade and die,
    16 lines, 4 comments
  • Annihilation
    While the blue noon above us arches,
    And the poplar sheds disconsolate leaves,
    38 lines
  • Asphalt
    Light your cigarette, then, in this shadow,
    And talk to her, your arm engaged with hers.
    23 lines
  • Beloved, Let Us Once More Praise The Rain
    Beloved, let us once more praise the rain.
    Let us discover some new alphabet,
    26 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
  • Chiaroscuro Rose
    Fill your bowl with roses: the bowl, too, have of crystal.
    Sit at the western window. Take the sun
    38 lines
  • Counterpoint: Two Rooms
    He, in the room above, grown old and tired;
    She, in the room below, his floor her ceiling,
    52 lines
  • Dancing Adairs
    Behold me, in my chiffon, gauze, and tinsel,
    Flitting out of the shadow into the spotlight,
    20 lines
  • Dead Cleopatra
    Dead Cleopatra lies in a crystal casket, 
    Wrapped and spiced by the cunningest of hands. 
    23 lines, 1 comment
  • Discordants
    I. (Bread and Music)
    Music I heard with you was more than music,
    52 lines
  • Duval's Birds
    The parrot, screeching, flew out into the darkness,
    Circled three times above the upturned faces
    14 lines
  • Evening Song Of Senlin
    It is moonlight. Alone in the silence
    I ascend my stairs once more,
    36 lines, 1 comment
  • Evensong
    I
    In the pale mauve twilight, streaked with orange,
    115 lines
  • Exile
    These hills are sandy. Trees are dwarfed here. Crows
    Caw dismally in skies of an arid brilliance,
    32 lines
  • From: Preludes for Memnon
    I read the primrose and the sea
                                &
    95 lines
  • From: Time In The Rock
    If one voice, not another, must speak first,
    out of the silence, the stillness, the preceding—
    126 lines
  • God’s Acre
    In Memory Of. In Fondest Recollection Of.
    In Loving Memory Of. In Fond
    79 lines
  • Goya
    Goya drew a pig on a wall.
    The five-year-old hairdresser’s son
    69 lines
  • Hatteras Calling
    Southeast, and storm, and every weathervane
    shivers and moans upon its dripping pin,
    24 lines
  • Haunted Chambers
    The lamp-lit page is turned, the dream forgotten;
    The music changes tone, you wake, remember
    40 lines
  • Herman Melville
    ‘My towers at last!’—
      What meant the word
    39 lines
  • How Is It That I Am Now So Softly Awakened
    How is it that I am now so softly awakened,
    My leaves shaken down with music?—
    55 lines
  • How to Accompany The Moon Without Walking
    Harsh, harsh, the maram grass on the salt dune,
    seen by the cricket’s eye against the harbor moon,
    57 lines
  • Illicit
    Of what she said to me that night—no matter.
    The strange thing came next day.
    75 lines
  • Improvisations: Light and Snow: 01
    The girl in the room beneath
    Before going to bed
    9 lines
  • Improvisations: Light And Snow: 02
    I stood for a long while before the shop window
    Looking at the blue butterflies embroidered on tawny silk.
    8 lines
  • Improvisations: Light And Snow: 03
    The first bell is silver,
    And breathing darkness I think only of the long scythe of time.
    19 lines
  • Improvisations: Light And Snow: 04
    On the day when my uncle and I drove to the cemetery,
    Rain rattled on the roof of the carriage;
    10 lines
  • Improvisations: Light And Snow: 05
    When I was a boy, and saw bright rows of icicles
    In many lengths along a wall
    8 lines
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