The Butterfly (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
IO wonderful and wing?d flower,That hoverest in the garden-close,Finding, in mazes of the rose,The rapture of a summer hour !O ...
IO wonderful and wing?d flower,That hoverest in the garden-close,Finding, in mazes of the rose,The rapture of a summer hour !O ...
IThe incognizable kings of Night, within their unrevealed abyssHave built them a metropolis against the kingdoms of the light.Its mountain-passing ...
So blind Orion, groping for the mornWith eyes uplift whereon forever hungInfinite burden and suspense of night,Had clomb the long ...
The pendulum, with brazen din,Proclaims the midnight; we beginTo call to mind, ironically,What uses we have made of thisDead day ...
What islands marvellous are these,That gem the sunset's tides of light--Opals aglow in saffron seas?How beautiful they lie, and bright,Like ...
What nights retard thee, O Sirius !Thy light is as a spear,And thou penetratest themAs a warrior that stabbeth his ...
O'er dreamland gardens lulled and white In music leaned the langorous moonThe burden of the murmured night.Where amaranths and lillies ...
My love is the flame of an unfading autumn,It is the flare of unconsuming leavesIn an ecstasy of halcyonian space ...
Alas! the evanescence of a dream, That, like a rose, shall never blossom more! A glimpse of unguessed things, and ...
I dreamed that each most lovely, perfect thingThat nature hath, of sound and form and hue-The winds, the grass, the ...
White Beauty, bending from a throne sublime,Hath claimed my lips with kisses keen as snow:Now through my harp the tremors ...
Against my heart your heart is closed; you bid me go:What ways are left in all the world for love ...
A faery land is this that far and highAnd all suffused with tints of pearl and rose,Above the crimson sunset ...
Thy soul is like a secret garden-close,Where roots of cleft rnandragoras enwreathe;Where bergamot and fumitory breathe,And ivy winds its tower ...
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