Conrad Aiken
Born
in Savannah, Georgia, The United States
August 05, 1889
Died
August 17, 1973
Genre
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Silent Snow, Secret Snow
5 editions
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published
1934
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Selected Poems
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18 editions
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published
1928
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The House of Dust: a Symphony
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The Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken
12 editions
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published
1960
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Mr. Arcularis
4 editions
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published
1957
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Collected Poems, 1916-1970
3 editions
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published
1970
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Blue Voyage
11 editions
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published
1927
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Great Circle
6 editions
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published
1933
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Ushant: An Essay
9 editions
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published
1952
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Impulse
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“It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the loin lies down with the limb.”
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“Death is never an ending, death is a change;
Death is beautiful, for death is strange;
Death is one dream out of another flowing.”
― The House of Dust: a Symphony
Death is beautiful, for death is strange;
Death is one dream out of another flowing.”
― The House of Dust: a Symphony
“It is moonlight. Alone in the silence
I ascend my stairs once more,
While waves remote in pale blue starlight
Crash on a white sand shore.
It is moonlight. The garden is silent.
I stand in my room alone.
Across my wall, from the far-off moon,
A rain of fire is thrown.
There are houses hanging above the stars,
And stars hung under the sea,
And a wind from the long blue vault of time
Waves my curtains for me.
I wait in the dark once more,
swung between space and space:
Before the mirror I lift my hands
And face my remembered face.”
―
I ascend my stairs once more,
While waves remote in pale blue starlight
Crash on a white sand shore.
It is moonlight. The garden is silent.
I stand in my room alone.
Across my wall, from the far-off moon,
A rain of fire is thrown.
There are houses hanging above the stars,
And stars hung under the sea,
And a wind from the long blue vault of time
Waves my curtains for me.
I wait in the dark once more,
swung between space and space:
Before the mirror I lift my hands
And face my remembered face.”
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