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Till fairer now than beauty is your face, I sought, and found a slowly growing grace In dream and wonder evermore shall strive The faithful soul, the sentience darkly thralled, Like dawn from out the midnight of the tomb.Ĭolors, and glints, and glamors unrecalled, How art thou tall in these autumnal yearsĪnd fragrant where the lesser suns illume,įor sustenance of Life’s forgotten tears. Sprung from the fire and dust of perished spheres, Or the black crystal of the eyes of Death. Her vision dwells, or in the ring-dove’s eye, In oriels filled with some conflagrant sky She lieth, ere the wind shall gather breath. The narrowing circlet of the desert mere ĭeep wells on which the ruby planets rear Īnd pools that hold a falcon-hovered blue Her presence or her passing: orbs of dew Trembling before some nameless imminence Īnd fellow-guestship with the glutless Worm. Where thou shalt dwell with woes and thoughts infirm Mine eyes were dazzled, and I saw no more.įrom regions of the sun’s half-dreamt decay,Īll day the cruel rain strikes darkly down Īnd from the night thy fatal stars shall frown-īeauty, wilt thou abide this night and day ?Ĭhill halls of mind, dank rooms of memory Her face the light of fallen planets wore,

Through glaucous ocean and the greener hills,Īnd in the cloud-bewildered peaks is pent. Incarnate Beauty ’twas, whose spirit thrills Of autumn-colored leaves, before me carne,Īnd, meeting, merged to one diviner form. The gleam and swiftness of the sea-bird’s wing īlueness of sea and sky, and gold of storm The winds, the grass, the light-concentering dew, That nature hath, of sound and form and hue. I dreamed that each most lovely, perfect thing I have selected five representative poems that all treat a common theme: beauty. The violent inventiveness of his language calls to mind a demon-crazed Hopkins. In Smith’s work one can easily discover similarities with both Lovecraft, his more famous colleague, and greater predecessors like Poe and Baudelaire. He had a profound talent and produced copious work in the Eldritch School of American Decadence. ( Source)Ĭlark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) was most famous for his publications in Weird Tales and his consequent literary association with H.P. He also produced a celebrated set of illustrations of Poe. One of Harry Clarke’s illustrations of Faust.