Potential Titles: Conrad Aiken

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Chiffon, gauze, and tinsel - Conrad Aiken "Dancing Adairs"

As a voice is lost in silence - Conrad Aiken "Dancing Adairs"

To mock black flights of years - Conrad Aiken "Discordants [Dead Cleopatra lies in a crystal casket]"

In a harrowing second of time - Conrad Aiken "1915: The Trenches"

And come to this chaos again - Conrad Aiken "1915: The Trenches"

This incoherent dust - Conrad Aiken "1915: The Trenches"

Being scion to Homer - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

All life's purpose at her feet - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

And knew what knave I was - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

In simulated venom crushed - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

The sullen beating of his seas - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

Run with wine of daybreak - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

Kept vigil with stars - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

The stars and frost so burned - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

Brother of larks and leaves - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

Held horses for a stingy penny - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

The bitter pennies that I saved - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

And shaking off the sun - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

Rising at the smell of dawn - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

So purely yonder in soft air - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

Season of snows and bitter rain - Conrad Aiken "Romance"

Now shining in bright sun - Conrad Aiken "Romance"

With strange and mystic breath - Conrad Aiken "Romance"

With drums before and roses showered after - Conrad Aiken "Romance"

Vision-isles and fairy shore - Conrad Aiken "Romance"

Crying its separate pain - Conrad Aiken "Romance"

To float impalpable in dusk - Conrad Aiken "Romance"

Sung like fire through beating veins - Conrad Aiken "Romance"

Only the sea lifted its great voice - Conrad Aiken "Romance"

Pale in saffron mist - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"

Myself on a swiftly tilting planet - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"

Dew-drops sing to the garden stones - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"

Repeating three clear tones - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"

Bathes in a flame of space - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"

Houses hanging about the stars - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"

Awake from a bed of silence - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"

From the starless waters of sleep - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"

And depart on the winds of space - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"

Shadows across the windows - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"

On the breath of moving water - Conrad Aiken "Seven Twilights"

A measured phrase of bells - Conrad Aiken "Seven Twilights"

To draw chill curtains - Conrad Aiken "Seven Twilights"

Under the rustling twilight of the sea - Conrad Aiken "Seven Twilights"

Forgetting all save beauty - Conrad Aiken "Seven Twilights"

With the fragrance we call grief - Conrad Aiken "Seven Twilights"

The great wheel of darkness - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"

Skeleton trees bow down - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"

Black leaves and smoke - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"

Wisdom alembicked out of dust - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"

Hold up these lanterns - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"

One hanging strand of cobweb - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"

Magicians against this baleful dust - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"

Chilled our laughter, stilled our play - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

And tortured hands so pale - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

Through dark and wind - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

Dead winds above us stir - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

Heavy as honeyed pulses beat - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

And through the night strange music - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

Cut the sky with glittering swords - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

Innocent souls turned carrion birds - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

Fruit trees murdered in the bud - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

Blown slowly from the wounded grain - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"


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