Alchemy of Sorrow (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
One with his fervor shall informThe world, and one with all his sorrow:One sees a glad, unsetting morrow,One hears the ...
One with his fervor shall informThe world, and one with all his sorrow:One sees a glad, unsetting morrow,One hears the ...
Midas watched the golden crust That formed over his steaming sores, Hugged his agues, loved his lust, But damned to ...
Exchange in greed the ungraceful signs. Thrust The thick notes between green apple breasts. Then the shadow of the devil ...
If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd, And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet Fetter'd, in spite of pained ...
"Man wants but little here below." LITTLE I ask; my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone, ...
One of the ones that Midas touched Who failed to touch us all Was that confiding Prodigal The reeling Oriole ...
Meeting by Accident, We hovered by design -- As often as a Century An error so divine Is ratified by ...
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert when every flower springs to life at once, but joy ...
A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Mark the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry ...
Thou fair hair'd angel of the evening, Now, while the sun rests on the mountains light, Thy bright torch of ...
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
Let Dew, house of Dew rejoice with Xanthenes a precious stone of an amber colour. Let Round, house of Round ...
First Ghost To sepulcher my mouldy bones I bough a pile of noble stones, And half a year a sculptor ...
The riches of the poet are equal to his poetry His power is his left hand It is idle weak ...
ACROSS the flat and the pastel snow Two people go . . . . 'And do you remember When last ...
This is the tale that was told to me by the man with the crystal eye, As I smoked my ...
Give me a cabin in the woods Where not a human soul intrudes; Where I can sit beside a stream ...
Earth no longer hymns the Creator, the seven days of wonder, the Garden is over - all the stories are ...
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
Harry, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent, ...
XIII To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires. Harry whose tuneful and well measur'd Song First taught our English Musick ...
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