Poems by Conrad Aiken

Here on the pale beach, in the darkness;
With the full moon just to rise;
They sit alone, a...

Beautiful body made of ivory,
Beautiful body made of ivory and roses,
Beautiful body made of ...

The sea falls all night on the yellow sand,
The green waves foam and thrust and slide,
The lo...

Against an orange twilight sky
The street lamp gleams like clearer fire,
The cold wind spills ...

Tear the pink rose petal by petal
And let the petals float and fall,
Ravel the golden stamens ...

He thinks her little feet should pass
Where dandelions star thickly grass;
Her hands should li...

I The first soft snowflakes hovering down the night,
From one white cloud that hurries beneath...

The sun distills a golden light,
The sun distills a silence.
White clouds dazzle across the sk...

From the cold fountain's sunlit lip
A shining film of water spreads,
It is shot with sun, it ...

Here alone, unknown, in the darkness,
I watched you whirling above your shadow,
Soft in saf...

Wind in the sunlit trees, and the red leaves fall:
Shadows of leaves on the sunlit wall.
Wind...

Green light, from the moon,
Pours over the dark blue trees,
Green light from the autumn moon...

Whatever loveliness is in this music,
Whatever yearning after lovely things, --
Whatever cryin...

I Well, I am tired.. Tired of all these years,
The hazy mornings, the noons, the misty even...

How is it that I am now so softly awakened,
My leaves shaken down with music?--
Darling, I lo...