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Conrad Potter Aiken

August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973


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Poem TitleFirst LinesPeriod# Lines# Reads
1: A Letter From Li Po Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind 433975
2: All Lovely Things All lovely things will have an ending, 161453
3: Asphalt Light your cigarette, then, in this shadow, 201287
4: Beloved, Let Us Once More Praise The Rain Beloved, let us once more praise the rain. 26935
5: Chiarascuro: Rose Fill your bowl with roses: the bowl, too, have of crystal. 381205
6: Dancing Adairs Behold me, in my chiffon, gauze, and tinsel, 201239
7: Discordants Music I heard with you was more than music, 481356
8: Duval's Birds The parrot, screeching, flew out into the darkness, 13949
9: Evening Song Of Senlin It is moonlight. Alone in the silence 36878
10: Hatteras Calling Southeast, and storm, and every weathervane 24862
11: How Is It That I Am Now So Softly Awakened How is it that I am now so softly awakened, 55886
12: Improvisations: Light And Snow: 01 The girl in the room beneath 81007
13: Improvisations: Light And Snow: 02 I stood for a long while before the shop window 8938
14: Improvisations: Light And Snow: 03 The first bell is silver, 19864
15: Improvisations: Light And Snow: 04 On the day when my uncle and I drove to the cemetery, 9895
16: Improvisations: Light And Snow: 05 When I was a boy, and saw bright rows of icicles 8925
17: Improvisations: Light And Snow: 06 It is now two hours since I left you, 10914
18: Improvisations: Light And Snow: 07 The day opens with the brown light of snowfall 19827
19: Improvisations: Light And Snow: 08 Many things perplex me and leave me troubled, 191216
20: Improvisations: Light And Snow: 09 This girl gave her heart to me, 181221
21: Improvisations: Light And Snow: 10 It is night time, and cold, and snow is falling, 191220
22: Improvisations: Light And Snow: 11 As I walked through the lamplit gardens, 141219
23: Improvisations: Light And Snow: 12 How many times have we been interrupted 261210
24: Improvisations: Light And Snow: 13 My heart is an old house, and in that forlorn old house, 211237
25: Improvisations: Light And Snow: 14 Like an old tree uprooted by the wind 71270
26: Improvisations: Light And Snow: 15 The music of the morning is red and warm; 151225
27: Morning Song Of Senlin It is morning, Senlin says, and in the morning 641195
28: Music I Heard Music I heard with you was more than music, 121400
29: Nocturne Of Remembered Spring Moonlight silvers the tops of trees, 124832
30: Rose And Murray After the movie, when the lights come up, 411053
31: Senlin, A Biography: Part 01: His Dark Origins - 01 Senlin sits before us, and we see him. 381027
32: Senlin, A Biography: Part 01: His Dark Origins - 02 Senlin, walking beside us, swings his arms 321016
33: Senlin, A Biography: Part 01: His Dark Origins - 03 It is evening, Senlin says, and in the evening, 46886
34: Senlin, A Biography: Part 01: His Dark Origins - 04 Senlin, walking before us in the sunlight, 36817
35: Senlin, A Biography: Part 01: His Dark Origins - 05 In the hot noon, in an old and savage garden, 46950
36: Senlin, A Biography: Part 01: His Dark Origins - 06 Rustling among his odds and ends of knowledge 41819
37: Senlin, A Biography: Part 01: His Dark Origins - 07 And am I then a pyramid?’ says Senlin, 28831
38: Senlin, A Biography: Part 01: His Dark Origins - 08 In cold blue lucid dusk before the sunrise, 28868
39: Senlin, A Biography: Part 02: His Futile Preoccupations - 01 I am a house, says Senlin, locked and darkened, 32862
40: Senlin, A Biography: Part 02: His Futile Preoccupations - 02 It is morning, Senlin says, and in the morning 64811
41: Senlin, A Biography: Part 02: His Futile Preoccupations - 03 I walk to my work, says Senlin, along a street 26780
42: Senlin, A Biography: Part 02: His Futile Preoccupations - 04 That woman, did she try to attract my attention? 61845
43: Senlin, A Biography: Part 02: His Futile Preoccupations - 05 It is noontime, Senlin says, and a street piano 51802
44: Senlin, A Biography: Part 02: His Futile Preoccupations - 06 Death himself in the rain . . . death himself . . . 43770
45: Senlin, A Biography: Part 02: His Futile Preoccupations - 07 It is noontime, Senlin says. The sky is brilliant 42791
46: Senlin, A Biography: Part 02: His Futile Preoccupations - 08 The pale blue gloom of evening comes 82771
47: Senlin, A Biography: Part 02: His Futile Preoccupations - 09 It is evening, Senlin says, and in the evening 30794
48: Senlin, A Biography: Part 02: His Futile Preoccupations - 10 It is moonlight. Alone in the silence 36878
49: Senlin, A Biography: Part 03: His Cloudy Destiny - 01 Senlin sat before us and we heard him. 27846
50: Senlin, A Biography: Part 03: His Cloudy Destiny - 02 Senlin, alone before us, played a music. 38797
51: Senlin, A Biography: Part 03: His Cloudy Destiny - 03 Senlin stood before us in the sunlight, 16879
52: The Carver See, as the carver carves a rose, 28871
53: The Cornet When she came out, that white little Russian dancer, 201212
54: The House of Dust - Part I - Complete The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light. 1916-1917 469867
55: The House of Dust - Part II - Complete The round red sun heaves darkly out of the sea. 1916-1917 650811
56: The House of Dust - Part III - Complete As evening falls, And the yellow lights leap one by one 1916-1917 1229795
57: The House of Dust - Part IV - Complete This envelope you say has something in it 1916-1917 779762
58: The House Of Dust: Part 01: 01: The Sun Goes Down In A Cold Pale Flare Of Light The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light. 381207
59: The House Of Dust: Part 01: 02: One, From His High Bright Window In A Tower One, from his high bright window in a tower, 261238
60: The House Of Dust: Part 01: 03: One, Where The Pale Sea Foamed At The Yellow Sand One, where the pale sea foamed at the yellow sand, 221214
61: The House Of Dust: Part 01: 04: Up High Black Walls, Up Sombre Terraces Up high black walls, up sombre terraces, 341212
62: The House Of Dust: Part 01: 05: The Snow Floats Down Upon Us, Mingled With Rain The snow floats down upon us, mingled with rain . . . 411228
63: The House Of Dust: Part 01: 06: Over The Darkened City, The City Of Towers Over the darkened city, the city of towers, 1301216
64: The House Of Dust: Part 01: 07: Midnight; Bells Toll, And Along The Cloud-High Towers Midnight; bells toll, and along the cloud-high towers 801162
65: The House Of Dust: Part 01: 08: The White Fog Creeps From The Cold Sea Over The City The white fog creeps from the cold sea over the city, 151161
66: The House Of Dust: Part 02: 01: The Round Red Sun Heaves Darkly Out Of The Sea The round red sun heaves darkly out of the sea. 241239
67: The House Of Dust: Part 02: 02: The Fulfilled Dream More towers must yet be built, more towers destroyed, 721179
68: The House Of Dust: Part 02: 03: Interlude The warm sun dreams in the dust, the warm sun falls 291206
69: The House Of Dust: Part 02: 04: Nightmare Draw three cards, and I will tell your future . . . 441223
70: The House Of Dust: Part 02: 05: Retrospect Round white clouds roll slowly above the housetops, 371137
71: The House Of Dust: Part 02: 06: Adele And Davis She turned her head on the pillow, and cried once more. 641189
72: The House Of Dust: Part 02: 07: Two Lovers: Overtones Two lovers, here at the corner, by the steeple, 721125
73: The House Of Dust: Part 02: 08: The Box With Silver Handles Well, it was two days after my husband died, 651217
74: The House Of Dust: Part 02: 09: Interlude The days, the nights, flow one by one above us, 261176
75: The House Of Dust: Part 02: 10: Sudden Death Number four, the girl who died on the table, 741132
76: The House Of Dust: Part 02: 11: Snow Falls. The Sky Is Grey, And Sullenly Glares Snow falls. The sky is grey, and sullenly glares 421213
77: The House Of Dust: Part 03: 01: As Evening Falls As evening falls, And the yellow lights leap one by one 391180
78: The House Of Dust: Part 03: 02: The Screen Maiden You read, what is it, then that you are reading? 1141142
79: The House Of Dust: Part 03: 03: Haunted Chambers The lamplit page is turned, the dream forgotten; 351161
80: The House Of Dust: Part 03: 04: Illicit Of what she said to me that night, no matter. 731129
81: The House Of Dust: Part 03: 05: Melody In A Restaurant The cigarette-smoke loops and slides above us, 311089
82: The House Of Dust: Part 03: 06: Portrait Of One Dead This is the house. On one side there is darkness, 621127
83: The House Of Dust: Part 03: 07: Porcelain You see that porcelain ranged there in the window, 891157
84: The House Of Dust: Part 03: 08: Coffins: Interlude Wind blows. Snow falls. The great clock in its tower 501159
85: The House Of Dust: Part 03: 09: Cabaret We sit together and talk, or smoke in silence. 551105
86: The House Of Dust: Part 03: 10: Letter From time to time, lifting his eyes, he sees 1501057
87: The House Of Dust: Part 03: 11: Conversation: Undertones What shall we talk of? Li Po? Hokusai? 66987
88: The House Of Dust: Part 03: 12: Witches’ Sabbath Now, when the moon slid under the cloud 279998
89: The House Of Dust: Part 03: 13: The Half-Shut Doors Through Which We Heard That Music The half-shut doors through which we heard that music 161046
90: The House Of Dust: Part 04: 01: Clairvoyant This envelope you say has something in it 48975
91: The House Of Dust: Part 04: 02: Death: And A Derisive Chorus The door is shut. She leaves the curtained office, 51988
92: The House Of Dust: Part 04: 03: Palimpsest: A Deceitful Portrait Well, as you say, we live for small horizons: 273980
93: The House Of Dust: Part 04: 04: Counterpoint: Two Rooms He, in the room above, grown old and tired, 451013
94: The House Of Dust: Part 04: 05: The Bitter Love-Song No, I shall not say why it is that I love you, 65998
95: The House Of Dust: Part 04: 06: Cinema As evening falls, The walls grow luminous and warm, the walls 1701007
96: The House Of Dust: Part 04: 07: The Sun Goes Down In A Cold Pale Flare Of Light The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light. 38938
97: The Room Through that window, all else being extinct 25878
98: The Window She looks out in the blue morning 36904
99: Violet Moore And Bert Moore He thinks her little feet should pass 24804
100: Zudora Here on the pale beach, in the darkness; 32929




About:
Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, born in Savannah, Georgia, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, and an autobiography.


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