Here on the pale beach, in the darkness;With the full moon just to rise;They...
Conrad Aiken
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Conrad Aiken was an American writer and poet who won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He was also the United States Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952. His works include poetry, short stories, novels, literary criticism, a play, and an autobiography. |
He thinks her little feet should passWhere dandelions star thickly grass;Her hands should lift...
When she came out, that white little Russian dancer,With her bright hair, and her...
After the movie, when the lights come up,He takes her powdered hand behind the...
The parrot, screeching, flew out into the darkness,Circled three times above the upturned facesWith...
Behold me, in my chiffon, gauze, and tinsel,Flitting out of the shadow into the...
She looks out in the blue morningand sees a whole wonderful worldshe looks out...
Through that window—all else being extinctExcept itself and me—I saw the struggleOf darkness against...
The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light.The trees grow dark:...
As evening falls,The walls grow luminous and warm, the wallsTremble and glow with the...