Midnight; bells toll, and along the cloud-high towersThe golden lights go out . ....
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. |
Over the darkened city, the city of towers,The city of a thousand gates,Over the...
The snow floats down upon us, mingled with rain . . .It eddies around...
Up high black walls, up sombre terraces,Clinging like luminous birds to the sides of...
One, where the pale sea foamed at the yellow sand,With wave upon slowly shattering...
One, from his high bright window in a tower,Leans out, as evening falls,And sees...
The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light.The trees grow dark:...
THE HOUSE OF DUSTA Symphony BYCONRAD AIKEN To Jessie NOTE . . . Parts...
THE HOUSE OF DUSTA Symphony BYCONRAD AIKEN To Jessie NOTE . . . Parts...
See, as the carver carves a rose,A wing, a toad, a serpent’s eye,In cruel...