Luna Aeternalis (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
By an alien dream despatched and drivenIn a land to strange stars given,Stars that summoned forth the moon,Singing a strange ...
By an alien dream despatched and drivenIn a land to strange stars given,Stars that summoned forth the moon,Singing a strange ...
So blind Orion, groping for the mornWith eyes uplift whereon forever hungInfinite burden and suspense of night,Had clomb the long ...
Third day, third month festival, and the air fresh with spring;beside Serpentine Lake in Chang'an, many lovely women ...
To make sure You have not said: "I love you," They smell your breath. They even smell your heart Trying ...
"THE SOUL of the world is abroad to-night- Not in yon silvery amalgam of moonbeam and ocean, nor in the ...
I hear the oriole's always-grieving voice,And the rich summer's welcome loss I hearIn the sickle's serpentine hissCutting the corn's ear ...
The buried statue through the marble gleams,Praying for freedom, an unwilling guest,Yet flooding with the light of her strange dreamsThe ...
I've known ere now an interfering branch Of alder catch my lifted ax behind me. But that was in the ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
In a cool curving world he lies And ripples with dark ecstasies. The kind luxurious lapse and steal Shapes all ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
Never the time and the place And the loved one all together! This path--how soft to pace! This May -- ...
I What's become of Waring Since he gave us all the slip, Chose land-travel or seafaring, Boots and chest, or ...
I hear the oriole's always-grieving voice, And the rich summer's welcome loss I hear In the sickle's serpentine hiss Cutting ...
1 FLOOD-TIDE below me! I watch you face to face; Clouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! ...
A LINE in long array, where they wind betwixt green islands; They take a serpentine course-their arms flash in the ...
Blue diaphane, tobacco smoke Serpentine on wet film and wood glaze, Mutes chrome, wreathes velvet drapes, Dims the cave of ...
Hail to thee, mountain beloved, with thy glittering purple-dyed summit! Hail to thee also, fair sun, looking so lovingly on! ...
I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way, Bare Winter suddenly was changed to Spring, And gentle odours led ...
All ye pleasure-seekers, where'er ye be, I pray ye all be advised by me, Go and visit Tayport on the ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
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