Twentieth-century American PoetryConrad Aiken |
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Page 95
... beauty ; hence from her , Alone , shall come fulfilment to our dreams And our desires . Although she strews the leaves Of sure obliteration on our paths , The path sick sorrow took , the many paths Where triumph rang its brassy phrase ...
... beauty ; hence from her , Alone , shall come fulfilment to our dreams And our desires . Although she strews the leaves Of sure obliteration on our paths , The path sick sorrow took , the many paths Where triumph rang its brassy phrase ...
Page 102
... beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes , The blackbird whistling Or just after . VI Icicles filled the long window With barbaric glass . The shadow of the blackbird Crossed it , to and fro . The mood Traced in the shadow An ...
... beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes , The blackbird whistling Or just after . VI Icicles filled the long window With barbaric glass . The shadow of the blackbird Crossed it , to and fro . The mood Traced in the shadow An ...
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... beauty , blue girls , before it fail ; And I will cry with my loud lips and publish Beauty which all our power shall never establish , It is so frail . For I could tell you a story which is true : I know a lady with a terrible tongue ...
... beauty , blue girls , before it fail ; And I will cry with my loud lips and publish Beauty which all our power shall never establish , It is so frail . For I could tell you a story which is true : I know a lady with a terrible tongue ...
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æther arms autumn Barsac beauty birds blood bloom blue bones boughs breath bright clouds CONRAD AIKEN dance dark dead death deep dream dust E. E. CUMMINGS earth Emily Dickinson eyes face fall fingers fire flame flesh flower garden gold gone grass green hair hand He-I He-Minikin He-You heard heart heaven JOHN GOULD FLETCHER kiss knew lady laugh leaf leaves light live look Manikin mind moon morning mountains move never night ocean pale pattern is movement petal R. P. BLACKMUR rain river ROBERT HILLYER rock rose round shadow silence singing sleep snow song soul sound spring stars stone summer sweet T. S. Eliot thee thin things thou thought tree Trumbull Stickney turn twilight Vincent Millay voice walk wall whisper wind window wings words yellow yellow dwarf