(5 August 1889 – 17 August 1973 / Savannah, Georgia)

poet Conrad Potter Aiken
#317 on top 500 poets

Poems of Conrad Potter Aiken

1. A Letter From Li Po 1/1/2004
2. All Lovely Things 1/3/2003
3. Annihilation 4/13/2010
4. Asphalt 4/13/2010
5. Beloved, Let Us Once More Praise The Rain 1/1/2004
6. Chance Meetings 4/13/2010
7. Chiaroscuro: Rose 1/3/2003
8. Counterpoint: Two Rooms 4/13/2010
9. Dancing Adairs 4/13/2010
10. Dead Cleopatra 4/13/2010
11. Discordants 1/3/2003
12. Duval's Birds 4/13/2010
13. Evening Song Of Senlin 1/1/2004
14. Exile 4/13/2010
15. From: Preludes for Memnon 4/13/2010
16. From: Time In The Rock 4/13/2010
17. God’s Acre 4/13/2010
18. Goya 4/13/2010
19. Hatteras Calling 1/1/2004
20. Haunted Chambers 4/13/2010

The Carver

See, as the carver carves a rose,
A wing, a toad, a serpent's eye,
In cruel granite, to disclose
The soft things that in hardness lie,
So this one, taking up his heart,
Which time and change had made a stone,
Carved out of it with dolorous art,
Laboring yearlong and alone,
The thing there hidden—rose, toad, wing?

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