Clark Ashton Smith Poems on Love Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

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 ...

Calenture (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)

Rathe summer had sered the grass in which he layUnder the little shadeThe live-oak made,While things remembered and foregone,Loves from ...

Examination at Midnight (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)

The pendulum, with brazen din,Proclaims the midnight; we beginTo call to mind, ironically,What uses we have made of thisDead day ...

Interrogation (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)

Love, will you look with meUpon the phosphor-litten labor of the worm-Time's minister, who toils for his appointed term,And has ...

Doubtful Skies (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)

Thine eyes are opals through some veiling vapor seen:Mysterious changeful, are they blue or grey or green?Dream they of death ...

The Cypress (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)

If passing sometimebeside my gravethy love would awakenthe soul once mine,thou wilt see a birdon a cypress perched:then speak with ...

Anodyne of Autumn (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)

Full-ripened on the bough,Pends the bright apple now,And the lees fall from out the unclouded wine.These memories that returnPour from ...

Apologia (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)

O gentlest love, I have not playedFor you upon the lute of jade;Nor on that fabulous bassoonWrought from the horns ...

Erato (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)

Ah, suffer that my songTo thee alone belong:No dearer happiness my heart would chooseThan thus to cast, O sweet,Each measured ...

Ecstasy (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)

Blind with your softly fallen hair,I turn me from the twilight air;And, ah, the wordless tale of loveMy lips upon ...

Chant of Autumn (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)

Like the voice of a golden star,Heard from afar,Perishing beauty callsOut of the mist and rain;Like the song of a ...

Amor Autumnalis (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)

My love is the flame of an unfading autumn,It is the flare of unconsuming leavesIn an ecstasy of halcyonian space ...

December (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)

From the sad leaves withdrawn,Remote, estranged and cold,Forgetful autumn's goldAlone abides in some December dawn.Tearless and clear and chillAs eyes ...

The Ennuye (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)

My days are as a garden, where the dustOf acrid fruits of Sodom sows the ground,And bows vermillion lillies lofty-crowned,Or ...

Anteros (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)

What voice, O vengeful Anteros,Has called thee from the seedless weald?-Dark sower of the tares of lossAmid the foison of ...

The Crucifixion of Eros (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)

Because of thee immortal Love hath died:Because thy wilful heart will not believe,Thy hands and mine a thorny crown must ...

Belated Love (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)

Ah, woe is me, for Love hath lain asleep,Hath lain too long in some Circean close-Till on his dreaming wings ...

Beauty Implacable (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)

White Beauty, bending from a throne sublime,Hath claimed my lips with kisses keen as snow:Now through my harp the tremors ...

Decadence (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)

By some strange antepast I have consumedIn a former star foregone the fruits of this;And frost and dust commingle in ...

Amor Aeternalis (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)

O Love, thou Judas of the martyred soul!Thou pandar to the painted harlot, Life !The rankest lies wherewith thy heart ...

Avowal (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)

Whatever alien fruits and changeling facesAnd pleasances of mutable perfumeThe flambeaux of the senses shall illumeAmid the night-furled labyrinthine spaces,In ...