Turns And Movies: Dancing Adairs (Conrad Aiken Poem)
Behold me, in my chiffon, gauze, and tinsel, Flitting out of the shadow into the spotlight, And into the shadow ...
Behold me, in my chiffon, gauze, and tinsel, Flitting out of the shadow into the spotlight, And into the shadow ...
As evening falls, The walls grow luminous and warm, the walls Tremble and glow with the lives within them moving, ...
The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light. The trees grow dark: the shadows lean to the ...
Now, when the moon slid under the cloud And the cold clear dark of starlight fell, He heard in his ...
Well, as you say, we live for small horizons: We move in crowds, we flow and talk together, Seeing so ...
We sit together and talk, or smoke in silence. You say (but use no words) 'this night is passing As ...
From time to time, lifting his eyes, he sees The soft blue starlight through the one small window, The moon ...
The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light. The trees grow dark: the shadows lean to the ...
Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind announces autumn, and the equinox rolls back blue bays to a far afternoon. ...
He Fill your bowl with roses: the bowl, too, have of crystal. Sit at the western window. Take the sun ...
I'm glad I am alive, to see and feel The full deliciousness of this bright day, That's like a heart ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
She ONLY to be twin elements of joy In this extravagance of Being, Love, Were our divided natures shaped in ...
Mysterious death! who in a single hour Life's gold can so refine And by thy art divine Change mortal weakness ...
A little kingdom I possess where thoughts and feelings dwell, And very hard I find the task of governing it ...
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura ch? la diritta via era smarrita . ...
Little shadows, little shadows Dancing on the chamber wall, While I sit beside the hearthstone Where the red flames rise ...
1 Ever musing I delight to tread The Paths of honour and the Myrtle Grove Whilst the pale Moon her ...
Oh! Mr. Best, you're very bad And all the world shall know it; Your base behaviour shall be sung By ...
'I've a pain in my head' Said the suffering Beckford; To her Doctor so dread. 'Oh! what shall I take ...
When I was young the silk of my mind hard as a peony head unfurled and wind bloomed the parachute: ...
I look for the way things will turn out spiralling from a center, the shape things will take to come ...
When you consider the radiance, that it does not withhold itself but pours its abundance without selection into every nook ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
Something strange is creeping across me. La Celestina has only to warble the first few bars Of "I Thought about ...
Kind of empty in the way it sees everything, the earth gets to its feet andsalutes the sky. More of ...
And the town is frozen solid in a vice, Trees, walls, snow, beneath a glass. Over crystal, on slippery tracks ...
You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the ...
Not under foreign skies Nor under foreign wings protected - I shared all this with my own people There, where ...
Do not accept these rains that come too late. Better to linger. Make your pain An image of the desert. ...
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