🇺🇸 Conrad Aiken (5 Aug 1889 – 17 Aug 1973)

• “The girl in the room beneath …”
• “Many things perplex me …”
• “When I was a boy …”
• “Nocturne of Remembered Spring”
• “This girl gave her heart to me …”
• “The day opens with the brown light of snowfall …”
• “It is now two hours since I left you …”
• “How Many Times Have We Been Interrupted”
• “Like an old tree uprooted by the wind …”
• “Evensong”
• “How is It that I Am now so Softly Awakened”
• “Red is the Color of Blood”
• “Broad on the Sunburnt Hill”
• “What Music’s Devious Voice Can Say”
• “Think, Love”
• “My love, I have betrayed you …”
• “Sonnet”
• “What lunacy is this …”
• “Melody in a Restaurant”
• “Prelude”
• “Multitudes Turn in Darkness”
• “Counterpoint: Two Rooms”
• “Haunted Chambers”
• “The Cyclads”
• “Exile”
• “Goya”
• “The Things”
• “Summer”
• “When You Are Not Surprised”
• “Ballad”
• “Blues for Ruby Matrix”
• “Chance Meeting”
• “Beloved, Let Us once More Praise the Rain”
• “Annihilation”
• “Discordants”
• “All Lovely Things”
• “A Letter from Li Po”