Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
Turns And Movies: Zudora
Here on the pale beach, in the darkness;With the full moon just to rise;They sit alone, and look over the sea,Or into each other's eyes. . .She pokes..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 06: Portrait Of One Dead
This is the house. On one side there is darkness,On one side there is light.Into the darkness you may lift your lanterns—O, any number—it will still..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
The House Of Dust: Part 02: 08: The Box With Silver Handles
Well,—it was two days after my husband died—Two days! And the earth still raw above him.And I was sweeping the carpet in their hall.In number..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
The House Of Dust: Part 02: 02: The Fulfilled Dream
More towers must yet be built—more towers destroyed—Great rocks hoisted in air;And he must seek his bread in high pale sunlightWith gulls about him..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
The House Of Dust: Part 01: 07: Midnight; Bells Toll, And Along The Cloud-High Towers
Midnight; bells toll, and along the cloud-high towersThe golden lights go out . . .The yellow windows darken, the shades are drawn,In thousands of..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
Improvisations: Light And Snow: 12
How many times have we been interruptedJust as I was about to make up a story for you!One time it was because we suddenly saw a fireflyLighting his..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
Multitudes Turn In Darkness
The half-shut doors through which we heard that musicAre softly closed. Horns mutter down to silence,The stars wheel out, the night grows..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
Improvisations: Light And Snow: 02
I stood for a long while before the shop windowLooking at the blue butterflies embroidered on tawny silk.The building was a tower before me,Time was..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
North Infinity Street
The alarm clocks tick in a thousand furnished rooms,tick and are wound for a thousand separate dooms;all down both sides of North Infinity Streetyou..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 04: Illicit
Of what she said to me that night—no matter.The strange thing came next day.My brain was full of music—something she played me—;I couldn't remember..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
Improvisations: Light And Snow: 14
Like an old tree uprooted by the windAnd flung down cruellyWith roots bared to the sun and starsAnd limp leaves brought to earth —Torn from its house..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
Improvisations: Light And Snow: 06
It is now two hours since I left you,And the perfume of your hands is still on my hands.And though since thenI have looked at the stars, walked in..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
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,With wave upon slowly shattering wave,Turned to the city of towers as evening fell;And slowly..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
The Grasshopper
Grasshoppergrasshopperall day longwe hear your scrapingsummer songlikerustyfiddlesinthegrassas throughthe meadowpathwe passsuch funny legssuch funny..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
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.The trees grow dark: the shadows lean to the east:And lights wink out through the windows, one by..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
The Room
Through that window—all else being extinctExcept itself and me—I saw the struggleOf darkness against darkness. Within the roomIt turned and turned..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
The Wars And The Unknown Soldier
IDry leaves, soldier, dry leaves, dead leaves;voices of leaves on the wind that bears them todestruction,impassioned prayer, impassioned hymn of..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
The House Of Dust: Part 02: 05: Retrospect
Round white clouds roll slowly above the housetops,Over the clear red roofs they flow and pass.A flock of pigeons rises with blue wings..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 03: Haunted Chambers
The lamplit page is turned, the dream forgotten;The music changes tone, you wake, rememberDeep worlds you lived before,—deep worlds hereafterOf leaf..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
Turns And Movies: The Cornet
When she came out, that white little Russian dancer,With her bright hair, and her eyes, so young, so young,He suddenly lost his leader, and all the..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
Counterpoint: Two Rooms
He, in the room above, grown old and tired;She, in the room below, his floor her ceiling,Pursue their separate dreams. He turns his light,And throws..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
Senlin: His Cloudy Destiny
1Senlin sat before us and we heard him.He smoked his pipe before us and we saw him.Was he small, with reddish hair,Did he light his pipe with a..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
The Window
She looks out in the blue morningand sees a whole wonderful worldshe looks out in the morningand sees a whole worldshe leans out of the windowand..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
The House Of Dust: Part 01: 06: Over The Darkened City, The City Of Towers
Over the darkened city, the city of towers,The city of a thousand gates,Over the gleaming terraced roofs, the huddled towers,Over a somnolent whisper..
© Conrad Potter Aiken
The House Of Dust: Part 01: 04: Up High Black Walls, Up Sombre Terraces
Up high black walls, up sombre terraces,Clinging like luminous birds to the sides of cliffs,The yellow lights went climbing towards the sky.From high..
© Conrad Potter Aiken