The House Of Dust: Part 01: 02: One, From His High Bright Window In A Tower
Conrad Aiken
One, from his high bright window in a tower, Leans out, as evening falls, And sees the advancing curtain of the shower Splashing its silver on roofs and walls: Sees how, swift as a shadow, it crosses the city, And murmurs beyond far walls to the sea, Leaving a glimmer of water in the dark canyons, And silver falling from eave and tree. One, from his high bright window, looking down, Peers like a dreamer over the rain-bright town, And thinks its towers are like a dream. The western windows flame in the sun’s last flare, Pale roofs begin to gleam. Looking down from a window high in a wall He sees us all; Lifting our pallid faces towards the rain, Searching the sky, and going our ways again, Standing in doorways, waiting under the trees . . . There, in the high bright window he dreams, and sees What we are blind to,—we who mass and crowd From wall to wall in the darkening of a cloud. The gulls drift slowly above the city of towers, Over the roofs to the darkening sea they fly; Night falls swiftly on an evening of rain. The yellow lamps wink one by one again. The towers reach higher and blacker against the sky.
Next 10 Poems
- Conrad Aiken : The House Of Dust: Part 01: 03: One, Where The Pale Sea Foamed At The Yellow Sand
- Conrad Aiken : The House Of Dust: Part 01: 04: Up High Black Walls, Up Sombre Terraces
- Conrad Aiken : The House Of Dust: Part 01: 05: The Snow Floats Down Upon Us, Mingled With Rain
- Conrad Aiken : The House Of Dust: Part 01: 06: Over The Darkened City, The City Of Towers
- Conrad Aiken : The House Of Dust: Part 01: 07: Midnight; Bells Toll, And Along The Cloud-high Towers
- Conrad Aiken : The House Of Dust: Part 01: 08: The White Fog Creeps From The Cold Sea Over The City
- Conrad Aiken : The House Of Dust: Part 02: 01: The Round Red Sun Heaves Darkly Out Of The Sea
- Conrad Aiken : The House Of Dust: Part 02: 02: The Fulfilled Dream
- Conrad Aiken : The House Of Dust: Part 02: 03: Interlude
- Conrad Aiken : The House Of Dust: Part 02: 04: Nightmare
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