But Grant, O Venus (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Though love had dreamt of soft eternitiesFor never-flagging pulses still to mete,Those minutes of our bliss were few and fleet.Breast-pillowed ...
Clark Ashton Smith Poems on Memory (6 Poems)
Ave Atque Vale (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Black dreams; the pale and sorrowful desireWhose eyes have looked on Lethe and have seen,Deep in the sliding ebon tide ...
Eidolon (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Chryselephantine, clear as carven name,Before my gaze thy soul's eidolon stands,As on the threshold of the frozen landsA frozen sun ...
The Orchid of Beauty (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Beauty, thou orchid of immortal bloom,Sprung from the fire and dust of perished spheres,How art thou tall in these autumnal ...
Change (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
For pity, not for love(Because you loved me so)With undesirous lipsI kissed you long ago.You were not over-fair;And surely it ...
The Mad Wind (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
What hast thou seen, O wind,Of beauty or of terror,Surpassing, denied to us,That with precipitate wings,Mad and ecstatical,Thou spurnest the ...