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 ...
Clark Ashton Smith Poems (113 Poems)
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 ...
The City Of Destruction (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
IThe incognizable kings of Night, within their unrevealed abyssHave built them a metropolis against the kingdoms of the light.Its mountain-passing ...
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 ...
The Blindness of Orion (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
So blind Orion, groping for the mornWith eyes uplift whereon forever hungInfinite burden and suspense of night,Had clomb the long ...
Don Quixote on Market Street (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Riding on Rosinante where the carsWith dismal unremitting clangors pass,And people move like curbless energumensRowelled by fiends of fury back ...
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 ...
Bacchante (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Men say the gods have flown;The Golden Age is but a fading story,And Greece was transitory:Yet on this hill hesperian ...
Almost Anything (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Superlatively sonorousLike a saxophone full of brass tacks and coffin-nails;Reverberantly rhythmical and rhythmically reverberantLike the quobbing of a foetus five ...
Dominium in Excelsis (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Exalt thyself: be more than man,Be saint or be magician,And where the burning Sword awaitsDefy the old seraphic ban.Thy will, ...
Cleopatra (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Thy beauty is the warmth and languor of an orient autumn,Caressing all the senses-With light from skies of heavy azure,With ...
The Garden Of Dreams (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
One day, when summer suns were kind, I walked within my soul's domain, Where inner summer held its reign,And ...
Cleopetra (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Thy beauty is the warmth and languor of an orient autumn,Caressing all the senses-With light from skies of heavy azure,With ...
Amor Hesternalis (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Our blood is swayed by sunken moonsAnd lulled by midnights long foredone;We waken to a foundered sunIn Atlantean afternoons:Our blood ...
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 ...
Calendar (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
To find with you the earliestWillow-buds before their silver turns to gold,And the first previous buttercup and cyclamen that blossomEre ...
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 ...
Chant to Sirius (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
What nights retard thee, O Sirius !Thy light is as a spear,And thou penetratest themAs a warrior that stabbeth his ...
The Cloud-Island (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Dream Mystery (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
O'er dreamland gardens lulled and white In music leaned the langorous moonThe burden of the murmured night.Where amaranths and lillies ...
Evening Harmony (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Now, see! the time is come when solemnly and slowThe flowers on their stem like shaken censers fume;When sounds and ...
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 ...
Elysian Landscape (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Eternal autumn gilds the trees whereonan ardent twilight lengthens endlessly.In a warm strong wind the leaves whirl on and onwhile ...
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 ...
De Profundis (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Too long, alas, too longMy patient heart enduresThis deep and desperate wrong-To walk on fallen ways afar from yours.O pain ...
Cumuli (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
They seem the enfolding mountains of some fairer landThat lies beyond the world,With vales of purpling rose in hills eburnean ...
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 ...
Before Sunrise (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
I rose in that hushed hour before the dawnUnveils its wonder old yet ever-new,When still the night lies languidly uponThe ...