My heart has become as hard as a city street, The horses tr… - Conrad Aiken

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My heart has become as hard as a city street,
The horses trample upon it, it sings like iron,
All day long and all night long they beat,
They ring like the hooves of time.

Conrad Aiken

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Conrad Potter Aiken (5 August 1889 – 17 August 1973) was an American writer and poet.

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In one room, silently, lover looks upon lover,
And thinks the air is fire.

We rub the darkness from our eyes,
And face our thousand devious secret mornings . . .
And do not see how the pale mist, slowly ascending,
Shaped by the sun, shines like a white-robed dreamer
Compassionate over our towers bending.

The wind shrieks, the wind grieves;
It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again;
And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams
And desires to stir, to resist a ghost of pain.

My heart has become as hard as a city street, The horses trample upon it, it sings like iron, All day long and all night long they beat, They ring li… - Conrad Aiken

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