Poems by Conrad Aiken
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 10: Letter
... Not through forgetfulness, but more for pleasurePondering much on all you say in it ...
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 11: Conversation: Undertones
... . .'One feels so petty!One feels suchemptiness!' ...
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 12: Witches' Sabbath
... * * * * *This air is alive with witches: the white witch rides ...
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 13: The half-shut doors through which we heard that music
... . . We open our eyes and stare at the coiling darkness, ...
The House Of Dust: Part 04: 01: Clairvoyant
... And if she loves him still!''He tells you she is there, and loves him still, ...
The House Of Dust: Part 04: 02: Death: And A Derisive Chorus
... That's what you get for meddling so with heaven!Where have you been, old lady ...
The House Of Dust: Part 04: 03: Palimpsest: A Deceitful Portrait
... And thinks (to judge from selfthis too is guesswork)The music strangely subtle, deep in meaning, ...
The House Of Dust: Part 04: 04: Counterpoint: Two Rooms
... , by the window, smiles at a starlight night,His watchthe same he has heard these cycles of ages ...
The House Of Dust: Part 04: 05: The Bitter Love-Song
... . . I'll saymy childhood broke through chords of music ...
The House Of Dust: Part 04: 06: Cinema
... s in the wind, the blown sand whispers,The soft sand seethes on the dunes, the clear grains glisten, ...
The House Of Dust: Part 04: 07: The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light
... We crowd through the streets in a dazzle of pallid lamplight, ...
The Room
... it was as if It killed itself, slowly: and with much pain ...
The Window
... draws a stiff diagram of painbut the walls around her tremble ...
Turns And Movies: Dancing Adairs
... . . O sweet and soothing end for a life of whirling! ...
Turns And Movies: Duval's Birds
... When they were stubborn, she tapped them with a wand, ...
