Potential Titles: Clark Ashton Smith
Jul. 1st, 2011 08:46 pmThe weariness of dreams - Clark Ashton Smith "Alexandrines"
And desperate, brief delights - Clark Ashton Smith "Alexandrines"
So is the hope of sleep - Clark Ashton Smith "Anticipation"
And fret a moon of yellow ivory - Clark Ashton Smith "Arabesque"
High and moon-suspended fountains - Clark Ashton Smith "Artemis"
Shall have the veils of twilight - Clark Ashton Smith "Ashes of Sunset"
In foam and purple lost - Clark Ashton Smith "Ashes of Sunset"
Is grown a dimmer gold - Clark Ashton Smith "Autumnal"
Where fallen roses stir - Clark Ashton Smith "Autumnal"
The pale and sorrowful desire - Clark Ashton Smith "Ave Atque Vale"
Whose eyes have looked on Lethe - Clark Ashton Smith "Ave Atque Vale"
Deep in the sliding ebon tide - Clark Ashton Smith "Ave Atque Vale"
Winds that wrangle through the vast - Clark Ashton Smith "The Balance"
With kisses keen as snow - Clark Ashton Smith "Beauty Implacable"
The ashen dawn of Autumn - Clark Ashton Smith "Belated Love"
To stars of undiscovered gold - Clark Ashton Smith "Beyond the Great Wall"
On fiery wings to worlds unknown - Clark Ashton Smith "Beyond the Great Wall"
From out the web of former lives - Clark Ashton Smith "The Butterfly"
And follow through the maze of Fate - Clark Ashton Smith "The Butterfly"
On wings of lyric fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Butterfly"
With peril and with wonder zoned - Clark Ashton Smith "The Butterfly"
The voice of a golden star - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant of Autumn"
Like the song of a silver wind - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant of Autumn"
Waning rose by ungathered rose - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant of Autumn"
Fairer the petals that fall - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant of Autumn"
Till the links of the universe are unfastened - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant to Sirius"
Dissevered by suns no longer - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant to Sirius"
With light in the night of infinitude - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant to Sirius"
Whose floor is the lower void - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant to Sirius"
Gorged with the dust of thrones - Clark Ashton Smith "The Chimaera"
Opals aglow in saffron seas - Clark Ashton Smith "The Cloud-Islands"
A hueless warp of light - Clark Ashton Smith "Crepuscle"
Because thy wilful heart will not believe - Clark Ashton Smith "The Crucifixion of Eros"
And mute the mouth of our eternal need - Clark Ashton Smith "The Crucifixion of Eros"
Reigns above the fallen noon - Clark Ashton Smith "A Dead City"
Mute, unsentried walls and turrets climb - Clark Ashton Smith "A Dead City"
Where a city's bones are strewn - Clark Ashton Smith "A Dead City"
Cries like a prophet's ghost - Clark Ashton Smith "A Dead City"
Lifted past the level years - Clark Ashton Smith "Desire of Vastness"
Iron rays of dawn relentless - Clark Ashton Smith "Desolation"
The harsh, brief sob of broken horns - Clark Ashton Smith "Dissonance"
Within the rain's grey monotone - Clark Ashton Smith "The Dream-Bridge"
Its ears of quivering stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Echo of Memnon"
The one whom suns had sought - Clark Ashton Smith "Echo of Memnon"
Desert years in one deep kiss - Clark Ashton Smith "Ecstasy"
Passion in our secret veins - Clark Ashton Smith "Ecstasy"
That weep with tears of ice and crystal - Clark Ashton Smith "Eidolon"
A wizard wind goes crying - Clark Ashton Smith "The Eldritch Dark"
Beneath a greater shadow's wings - Clark Ashton Smith "The Eldritch Dark"
Your heart is closed - Clark Ashton Smith "The Exile"
Dead moons that wander - Clark Ashton Smith "The Exile"
The skies of steel and gold - Clark Ashton Smith "The Exile"
The elves upon their midnight way - Clark Ashton Smith "Fairy Lanterns"
Eating the dead blue sky - Clark Ashton Smith "Finis"
That blackens with the passing of the fire - Clark Ashton Smith "Finis"
Less than any broken glass - Clark Ashton Smith "Forgetfulness"
The grey flowers and the fallen grass - Clark Ashton Smith "Forgetfulness"
One with dust and wind - Clark Ashton Smith "A Fragment"
Where fall the snows of silence - Clark Ashton Smith "The Fugitives"
Sun of secret worlds incredible - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Usurp the skies with thunder - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Runes of ever-twisting flame - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Songs from silver fragrance wrought - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
On the shifting walls of time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
That hide a hueless poison - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
The prophecy of wars renewed - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Even to the brink of time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
To isles of timeless summer - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
And cures the wound of wisdom - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
The names of his conniving stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
A universe of shrouded stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Make a brief and broken wind - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Like sapphires that have lain in hell - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Turned the unprinted snow to flame - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
The outwearied wings of time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
And turn the skies to perfume - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Usurp the shadowy interval - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
A throne of flowering ebony - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
And sweep the sands to fury - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Towers of night and fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Shaking the riper trees to dust - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
When the gloom of crimson lifts - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
The ruin of all the wars of time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Like a stream of broken stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Far-flown in black occlusion - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
The lamplike thought of you - Clark Ashton Smith "Haunting"
Pours out the moon's white mercy - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hope of the Infinite"
In the grim serenity of stone - Clark Ashton Smith "Image"
Mirrors made of lucid stone - Clark Ashton Smith "Impression"
To answering tides of spears - Clark Ashton Smith "In Lemuria"
The weary, grey, forgetful heavens - Clark Ashton Smith "In November"
The golden shore allured me - Clark Ashton Smith "In Saturn"
As one whom spells restrain - Clark Ashton Smith "In Saturn"
And harbors never known - Clark Ashton Smith "In Saturn"
Formed of fire and brass - Clark Ashton Smith "In Saturn"
White hells of light and clamour - Clark Ashton Smith "Inferno"
The jealous flame of sad, infernal suns - Clark Ashton Smith "Inferno"
Lands no dream may name - Clark Ashton Smith "The Infinite Quest"
With fealty to the stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Infinite Quest"
Splendours that inform the light - Clark Ashton Smith "Inheritance"
Mouth of starry proud desire - Clark Ashton Smith "Inheritance"
By exultation of the flying dance - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Flung through the void's expanse - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Shade nor lightening of her flame - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Of sleep beyond forsaking - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Enigma past and mystery foreseen - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Strength obtained from light that failed - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Power lent by the stronger night - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Perplex us with new mystery - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
The depth and eminence of years - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Flaming shields of dawns between - Clark Ashton Smith "The Land of Evil Stars"
A mountain's utmost eminence of snow - Clark Ashton Smith "The Last Night"
Impended for a breath on wings of doom - Clark Ashton Smith "The Last Night"
A fugitive uncapturable fire - Clark Ashton Smith "Laus Mortis"
The spell of waves intense with night - Clark Ashton Smith "Lethe"
Earth's denied and cheated sons - Clark Ashton Smith "Lethe"
Till being's wine is low - Clark Ashton Smith "Lethe"
Drink at one draught a universe - Clark Ashton Smith "Lethe"
Fragment of a god's array - Clark Ashton Smith "A Live-Oak Leaf"
After the frail and perished moon - Clark Ashton Smith "Love Is Not Yours, Love Is Not Mine"
Fed with poison-honey - Clark Ashton Smith "Love Malevolent"
Across the upturned faces of the stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
The dead shell of a frozen world - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
With penetrating of successive masks - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Claim the pantheon of dream - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Phantoms of some old storm's death-driven Titans - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
The last echoes of a thunder spent - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
The magic circle which the moon draws - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Now I have but the wind alone - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Echo forgets my music not - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Where trampling years have stood - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Forgotten then of Time's desire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Which Pygmalion made and loved - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Alone of all Time's hierarchy - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Whose names are blotted from the lists of Time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
The blank and universal Sphinx - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Fresh altars in a distant sphere - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
While all the flames of dream expire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
The colored clue of dreams - Clark Ashton Smith "The Maze of Sleep"
A windless land of livid dreams - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
The fleshless earth's outjutting ribs - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
Twisting like a serpent's track - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
Caught in meshes of Eternity - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
In the changing webs of cloud - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
Unseen spiders of bewildered winds - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
As candle-flames that near the socket - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
Throned in Medusa's eyes - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
The corroded moon a dust upon the gulfs - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
Livid as the stealthy hands of doom - Clark Ashton Smith "The Medusa of the Skies"
To mark the tired stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Melancholy Pool"
With the suns upon their road of awe - Clark Ashton Smith "The Ministers of Law"
Mirrors of steel or silver - Clark Ashton Smith "Mirrors"
With the reflex of infinity - Clark Ashton Smith "The Mirrors of Beauty"
Profounder for the twilight - Clark Ashton Smith "The Mirrors of Beauty"
Phantoms of the pale-white stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Morning Pool"
What prophecies are on the wind? - Clark Ashton Smith "The Mystic Meaning"
And cry in vain upon the strand - Clark Ashton Smith "The Mystic Meaning"
What tidings do the billows bring - Clark Ashton Smith "The Mystic Meaning"
Webs of radiance spun - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nemesis of Suns"
Grasped within the hollow hand of Night - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nemesis of Suns"
All suns are grasped within the hollow hand - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nemesis of Suns"
The sinking stars desire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nereid"
Shadow of errant winds - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nereid"
The white curse of clearer day - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nereid"
Soul of the sea's vast emerald - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nereid"
Fulfilment's crown to visions - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
The wide desire of kings - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Brief embodiment of wandering will - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Music forced by hands of fire - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
More quick to cry its agony - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Less than the measure of desire - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Overlord of many kings - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
To guide their dust of destiny - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
That rots the stone of fundamental spheres - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Above a chaos of extinguished suns - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
What darker web or dimension of dream - Clark Ashton Smith "The Night Forest"
The rapture of moonlight past - Clark Ashton Smith "The Night Forest"
Between the boundary marks of finite years - Clark Ashton Smith "Nirvana"
Those unvaried darks that veil Eternity - Clark Ashton Smith "Nirvana"
Confusion as of dust with sparks - Clark Ashton Smith "Nirvana"
Disunited orbs that late were atoms - Clark Ashton Smith "Nirvana"
Drawn outward by the vampire-lips of Sleep - Clark Ashton Smith "Nirvana"
From autumn's grey, forgotten roses - Clark Ashton Smith "November Twilight"
Adown the clefts of under-space - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"
Threat of sightless anarchs vast - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"
Blossoms stirred by wings of eidolons - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"
Through the walls of hollow cloud - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"
Broken constellations strewn like coals - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"
Upon the noon of their lost worlds - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"
In icy deserts of the sky - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"
From the beginning of the spheres - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"
Broken dreams of higher worlds unfound - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"
To thy realm all hidden things belong - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"
Some echo of her voice's mystery - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"
As sunset storms the sight - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"
Each dim atom of the system manifest - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"
Thy threads of wonder deep-entangled - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"
In vaster silence rendered mute - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
The tangled tissues of the universe - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
Reaps the flame of mightiest stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
Suns and worlds have been thy prey - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
That fell to huge and ultimate eclipse - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
Thunder of the meeting stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
Crash of orbits that diverged - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
Sung in the Romes of ruined spheres - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
Pluck out the light of stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
The fire and dust of perished sphere - Clark Ashton Smith "The Orchid"
Whose roots are in Eternity - Clark Ashton Smith "The Orchid"
Your points against the sapphire day - Clark Ashton Smith "Pine Needles"
No shining words of stone - Clark Ashton Smith "A Precept"
Would carve the mask of Mystery - Clark Ashton Smith "A Precept"
The inconsolable crying of an evil wind - Clark Ashton Smith "Psalm"
Cities of the wide mirage - Clark Ashton Smith "Psalm"
And clad with icy azures - Clark Ashton Smith "Psalm"
All the gardens of lost romance - Clark Ashton Smith "Psalm"
Where the ruining roses go - Clark Ashton Smith "Quest"
That harvest none shall glean - Clark Ashton Smith "Quest"
All the crownless, ruined years - Clark Ashton Smith "Recompense"
Of the sun's half-dreamt decay - Clark Ashton Smith "The Refuge of Beauty"
At portals dark and desperate - Clark Ashton Smith "The Refuge of Beauty"
The snows of forgetfulness - Clark Ashton Smith "Remembered Light"
In one swifter hour of flame - Clark Ashton Smith "Remembered Light"
Full of an umber twilight - Clark Ashton Smith "Remembered Light"
Shivered with outcry of eldritch voices - Clark Ashton Smith "Remembered Light"
Echo hath taken the song - Clark Ashton Smith "Requiescat"
In autumns lost of memory - Clark Ashton Smith "Requiescat in Pace"
The golden queens of planets long forgot - Clark Ashton Smith "Requiescat in Pace"
Came on my dream in thunder - Clark Ashton Smith "The Retribution"
Ghouls that batten on the past - Clark Ashton Smith "Retrospect and Forecast"
Loveliness find root within decay - Clark Ashton Smith "Retrospect and Forecast"
And night devour its flaming hues - Clark Ashton Smith "Retrospect and Forecast"
The dungeon-clefts of Tartarus - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
Closes the soul in a crypt of dread - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
Fluctuates between the mountains and the stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
Set as guards above the prison - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
Above the prison of the captive Titan-god - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
Hyperion divides the pillared vault of dark - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
The sentinel stars are dead - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
Some vast cacophony of dragons - Clark Ashton Smith "Satan Unrepentant"
My autumn heart confesses - Clark Ashton Smith "Satiety"
The Titans gathered round their king - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Beneath the bright scorn of the stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Of threatened worlds and trembling firmaments - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
A trumpet-voice of phantom hosts - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Through the sky like severing swords - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Sharp levin leaping in the north - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
The crumbling coasts of Matter - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Black desert gripped in iron silences - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Startled the haughty stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Their will as reins upon the sun - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Cuts the strained knot of destiny - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
None venturing to risk comparison - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Whereon the shadows lay like rust - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Red upon the forefront of the north - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Arcturus was a beacon to the winds - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
That was the nurse of infant Death - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
The eldritch laughters of the wind - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Stood in silent ranks expectant - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Their storms and thunders spent - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
March with the diminished stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Yield rose-dust and ivy-leaf - Clark Ashton Smith "Sepulture"
Hieroglyphics of abhorrent doom - Clark Ashton Smith "Shadow of Nightmare"
That bleeds in cloud and darkness - Clark Ashton Smith "Solution"
Bitter dreams I bring - Clark Ashton Smith "Song"
The sun's uncharted orbits bind - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of a Comet"
Close to the zones of solar fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of a Comet"
Beneath the star's unheeding eyes - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of a Comet"
Gold from the mines of the past - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
Find sustenance in shadows - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
Protection against the swords of the world - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
Of my dreams have I builded an inn - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
The hollowness of the unharvestable wind - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
Who harvest with the scythe of thought - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
The spirits of years unborn - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
A choral chant of flame - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of the Stars"
The voices of comet and asteroid - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of the Stars"
Where the silent maelstroms lurk and hide - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of the Stars"
Rises and ebbs in a tide of fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of the Stars"
Bestowed by fruitful Time's magnificence - Clark Ashton Smith "Song to Oblivion"
The crystal of unquestioned sleep - Clark Ashton Smith "The Sorrow of the Winds"
Cried to me in a dawn of dreams - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
All the threads of earth wear to the breaking - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Tread unharmed the blaze of stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Strikes off the chains of Time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Swings back the door of years - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
The thread and weaving of his way - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Swept beyond the brink of Sense - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Caught me from the clasping world - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Chained and hurled with solar lightning - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Rays that leap from severed suns - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Twisting of the threads of years - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Weavings wrought of noon and night - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Watched the dream unroll - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
That form the raiment of the soul - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Enkindling dawns of memory - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Alien ciphers shown and lit - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Loose all burden of old woes - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
The central music of the Pleiades - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
A revenant in worlds Edenic - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Diverse as Hell's mad antiphone - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
To render strong Antares blind - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Brows that starry Grief had crowned - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Hot from the furnace of the suns - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Where Rigel sends no word of might - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
And dwindled to the sun's extent - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Like woven amber, finely spun - Clark Ashton Smith "Strangeness"
Fleeing moons a traveller sees - Clark Ashton Smith "Strangeness"
The tears of mist and fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Tears of Lilith"
Upon the wind's oblivious woe - Clark Ashton Smith "To Nora May French"
Starward incense of the waning rose - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"
The glad and golden death of spring - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"
Weeps with frozen tears - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"
With time's inexorable mystery - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"
The bleak and bitter spell - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"
The empty truth of tears - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"
Golden stem of roses of illusion - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Beloved"
As eagles' wings in the quest of Truth - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Darkness"
That hands may not rend - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Darkness"
A roof with many beams and pillars - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Sun"
By the reins of invisible lightnings - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Sun"
Fall into the furnace of Arcturus - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Sun"
Fail not upon the road of space - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Sun"
That bloom but to an azure sun - Clark Ashton Smith "Triple Aspect"
Ancient lips to silence vowed - Clark Ashton Smith "Twilight on the Snow"
And the climber slips down gulfs of fear - Clark Ashton Smith "The Unrevealed"
Clear flame in lands extreme - Clark Ashton Smith "A Vision of Lucifer"
Bound with final frost - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"
Unshadowed flame of phantom suns - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"
Phantom suns in self-irradiance drowned - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"
Wherewith the suns and worlds were dyed - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"
All darkness rendered shelterless - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"
And its burden of vain desire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Wind and the Moon"
On the wings of the hastening wind - Clark Ashton Smith "The Wind and the Moon"
Lies unstirred at summer's heart - Clark Ashton Smith "The Winds"
Pale as with eternal sleep - Clark Ashton Smith "Winter Moonlight"
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And desperate, brief delights - Clark Ashton Smith "Alexandrines"
So is the hope of sleep - Clark Ashton Smith "Anticipation"
And fret a moon of yellow ivory - Clark Ashton Smith "Arabesque"
High and moon-suspended fountains - Clark Ashton Smith "Artemis"
Shall have the veils of twilight - Clark Ashton Smith "Ashes of Sunset"
In foam and purple lost - Clark Ashton Smith "Ashes of Sunset"
Is grown a dimmer gold - Clark Ashton Smith "Autumnal"
Where fallen roses stir - Clark Ashton Smith "Autumnal"
The pale and sorrowful desire - Clark Ashton Smith "Ave Atque Vale"
Whose eyes have looked on Lethe - Clark Ashton Smith "Ave Atque Vale"
Deep in the sliding ebon tide - Clark Ashton Smith "Ave Atque Vale"
Winds that wrangle through the vast - Clark Ashton Smith "The Balance"
With kisses keen as snow - Clark Ashton Smith "Beauty Implacable"
The ashen dawn of Autumn - Clark Ashton Smith "Belated Love"
To stars of undiscovered gold - Clark Ashton Smith "Beyond the Great Wall"
On fiery wings to worlds unknown - Clark Ashton Smith "Beyond the Great Wall"
From out the web of former lives - Clark Ashton Smith "The Butterfly"
And follow through the maze of Fate - Clark Ashton Smith "The Butterfly"
On wings of lyric fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Butterfly"
With peril and with wonder zoned - Clark Ashton Smith "The Butterfly"
The voice of a golden star - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant of Autumn"
Like the song of a silver wind - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant of Autumn"
Waning rose by ungathered rose - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant of Autumn"
Fairer the petals that fall - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant of Autumn"
Till the links of the universe are unfastened - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant to Sirius"
Dissevered by suns no longer - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant to Sirius"
With light in the night of infinitude - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant to Sirius"
Whose floor is the lower void - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant to Sirius"
Gorged with the dust of thrones - Clark Ashton Smith "The Chimaera"
Opals aglow in saffron seas - Clark Ashton Smith "The Cloud-Islands"
A hueless warp of light - Clark Ashton Smith "Crepuscle"
Because thy wilful heart will not believe - Clark Ashton Smith "The Crucifixion of Eros"
And mute the mouth of our eternal need - Clark Ashton Smith "The Crucifixion of Eros"
Reigns above the fallen noon - Clark Ashton Smith "A Dead City"
Mute, unsentried walls and turrets climb - Clark Ashton Smith "A Dead City"
Where a city's bones are strewn - Clark Ashton Smith "A Dead City"
Cries like a prophet's ghost - Clark Ashton Smith "A Dead City"
Lifted past the level years - Clark Ashton Smith "Desire of Vastness"
Iron rays of dawn relentless - Clark Ashton Smith "Desolation"
The harsh, brief sob of broken horns - Clark Ashton Smith "Dissonance"
Within the rain's grey monotone - Clark Ashton Smith "The Dream-Bridge"
Its ears of quivering stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Echo of Memnon"
The one whom suns had sought - Clark Ashton Smith "Echo of Memnon"
Desert years in one deep kiss - Clark Ashton Smith "Ecstasy"
Passion in our secret veins - Clark Ashton Smith "Ecstasy"
That weep with tears of ice and crystal - Clark Ashton Smith "Eidolon"
A wizard wind goes crying - Clark Ashton Smith "The Eldritch Dark"
Beneath a greater shadow's wings - Clark Ashton Smith "The Eldritch Dark"
Your heart is closed - Clark Ashton Smith "The Exile"
Dead moons that wander - Clark Ashton Smith "The Exile"
The skies of steel and gold - Clark Ashton Smith "The Exile"
The elves upon their midnight way - Clark Ashton Smith "Fairy Lanterns"
Eating the dead blue sky - Clark Ashton Smith "Finis"
That blackens with the passing of the fire - Clark Ashton Smith "Finis"
Less than any broken glass - Clark Ashton Smith "Forgetfulness"
The grey flowers and the fallen grass - Clark Ashton Smith "Forgetfulness"
One with dust and wind - Clark Ashton Smith "A Fragment"
Where fall the snows of silence - Clark Ashton Smith "The Fugitives"
Sun of secret worlds incredible - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Usurp the skies with thunder - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Runes of ever-twisting flame - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Songs from silver fragrance wrought - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
On the shifting walls of time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
That hide a hueless poison - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
The prophecy of wars renewed - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Even to the brink of time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
To isles of timeless summer - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
And cures the wound of wisdom - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
The names of his conniving stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
A universe of shrouded stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Make a brief and broken wind - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Like sapphires that have lain in hell - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Turned the unprinted snow to flame - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
The outwearied wings of time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
And turn the skies to perfume - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Usurp the shadowy interval - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
A throne of flowering ebony - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
And sweep the sands to fury - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Towers of night and fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Shaking the riper trees to dust - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
When the gloom of crimson lifts - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
The ruin of all the wars of time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Like a stream of broken stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Far-flown in black occlusion - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
The lamplike thought of you - Clark Ashton Smith "Haunting"
Pours out the moon's white mercy - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hope of the Infinite"
In the grim serenity of stone - Clark Ashton Smith "Image"
Mirrors made of lucid stone - Clark Ashton Smith "Impression"
To answering tides of spears - Clark Ashton Smith "In Lemuria"
The weary, grey, forgetful heavens - Clark Ashton Smith "In November"
The golden shore allured me - Clark Ashton Smith "In Saturn"
As one whom spells restrain - Clark Ashton Smith "In Saturn"
And harbors never known - Clark Ashton Smith "In Saturn"
Formed of fire and brass - Clark Ashton Smith "In Saturn"
White hells of light and clamour - Clark Ashton Smith "Inferno"
The jealous flame of sad, infernal suns - Clark Ashton Smith "Inferno"
Lands no dream may name - Clark Ashton Smith "The Infinite Quest"
With fealty to the stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Infinite Quest"
Splendours that inform the light - Clark Ashton Smith "Inheritance"
Mouth of starry proud desire - Clark Ashton Smith "Inheritance"
By exultation of the flying dance - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Flung through the void's expanse - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Shade nor lightening of her flame - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Of sleep beyond forsaking - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Enigma past and mystery foreseen - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Strength obtained from light that failed - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Power lent by the stronger night - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Perplex us with new mystery - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
The depth and eminence of years - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Flaming shields of dawns between - Clark Ashton Smith "The Land of Evil Stars"
A mountain's utmost eminence of snow - Clark Ashton Smith "The Last Night"
Impended for a breath on wings of doom - Clark Ashton Smith "The Last Night"
A fugitive uncapturable fire - Clark Ashton Smith "Laus Mortis"
The spell of waves intense with night - Clark Ashton Smith "Lethe"
Earth's denied and cheated sons - Clark Ashton Smith "Lethe"
Till being's wine is low - Clark Ashton Smith "Lethe"
Drink at one draught a universe - Clark Ashton Smith "Lethe"
Fragment of a god's array - Clark Ashton Smith "A Live-Oak Leaf"
After the frail and perished moon - Clark Ashton Smith "Love Is Not Yours, Love Is Not Mine"
Fed with poison-honey - Clark Ashton Smith "Love Malevolent"
Across the upturned faces of the stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
The dead shell of a frozen world - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
With penetrating of successive masks - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Claim the pantheon of dream - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Phantoms of some old storm's death-driven Titans - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
The last echoes of a thunder spent - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
The magic circle which the moon draws - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Now I have but the wind alone - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Echo forgets my music not - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Where trampling years have stood - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Forgotten then of Time's desire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Which Pygmalion made and loved - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Alone of all Time's hierarchy - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Whose names are blotted from the lists of Time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
The blank and universal Sphinx - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Fresh altars in a distant sphere - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
While all the flames of dream expire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
The colored clue of dreams - Clark Ashton Smith "The Maze of Sleep"
A windless land of livid dreams - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
The fleshless earth's outjutting ribs - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
Twisting like a serpent's track - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
Caught in meshes of Eternity - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
In the changing webs of cloud - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
Unseen spiders of bewildered winds - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
As candle-flames that near the socket - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
Throned in Medusa's eyes - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
The corroded moon a dust upon the gulfs - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
Livid as the stealthy hands of doom - Clark Ashton Smith "The Medusa of the Skies"
To mark the tired stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Melancholy Pool"
With the suns upon their road of awe - Clark Ashton Smith "The Ministers of Law"
Mirrors of steel or silver - Clark Ashton Smith "Mirrors"
With the reflex of infinity - Clark Ashton Smith "The Mirrors of Beauty"
Profounder for the twilight - Clark Ashton Smith "The Mirrors of Beauty"
Phantoms of the pale-white stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Morning Pool"
What prophecies are on the wind? - Clark Ashton Smith "The Mystic Meaning"
And cry in vain upon the strand - Clark Ashton Smith "The Mystic Meaning"
What tidings do the billows bring - Clark Ashton Smith "The Mystic Meaning"
Webs of radiance spun - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nemesis of Suns"
Grasped within the hollow hand of Night - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nemesis of Suns"
All suns are grasped within the hollow hand - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nemesis of Suns"
The sinking stars desire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nereid"
Shadow of errant winds - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nereid"
The white curse of clearer day - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nereid"
Soul of the sea's vast emerald - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nereid"
Fulfilment's crown to visions - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
The wide desire of kings - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Brief embodiment of wandering will - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Music forced by hands of fire - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
More quick to cry its agony - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Less than the measure of desire - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Overlord of many kings - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
To guide their dust of destiny - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
That rots the stone of fundamental spheres - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Above a chaos of extinguished suns - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
What darker web or dimension of dream - Clark Ashton Smith "The Night Forest"
The rapture of moonlight past - Clark Ashton Smith "The Night Forest"
Between the boundary marks of finite years - Clark Ashton Smith "Nirvana"
Those unvaried darks that veil Eternity - Clark Ashton Smith "Nirvana"
Confusion as of dust with sparks - Clark Ashton Smith "Nirvana"
Disunited orbs that late were atoms - Clark Ashton Smith "Nirvana"
Drawn outward by the vampire-lips of Sleep - Clark Ashton Smith "Nirvana"
From autumn's grey, forgotten roses - Clark Ashton Smith "November Twilight"
Adown the clefts of under-space - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"
Threat of sightless anarchs vast - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"
Blossoms stirred by wings of eidolons - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"
Through the walls of hollow cloud - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"
Broken constellations strewn like coals - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"
Upon the noon of their lost worlds - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"
In icy deserts of the sky - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"
From the beginning of the spheres - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"
Broken dreams of higher worlds unfound - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"
To thy realm all hidden things belong - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"
Some echo of her voice's mystery - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"
As sunset storms the sight - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"
Each dim atom of the system manifest - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"
Thy threads of wonder deep-entangled - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"
In vaster silence rendered mute - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
The tangled tissues of the universe - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
Reaps the flame of mightiest stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
Suns and worlds have been thy prey - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
That fell to huge and ultimate eclipse - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
Thunder of the meeting stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
Crash of orbits that diverged - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
Sung in the Romes of ruined spheres - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
Pluck out the light of stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
The fire and dust of perished sphere - Clark Ashton Smith "The Orchid"
Whose roots are in Eternity - Clark Ashton Smith "The Orchid"
Your points against the sapphire day - Clark Ashton Smith "Pine Needles"
No shining words of stone - Clark Ashton Smith "A Precept"
Would carve the mask of Mystery - Clark Ashton Smith "A Precept"
The inconsolable crying of an evil wind - Clark Ashton Smith "Psalm"
Cities of the wide mirage - Clark Ashton Smith "Psalm"
And clad with icy azures - Clark Ashton Smith "Psalm"
All the gardens of lost romance - Clark Ashton Smith "Psalm"
Where the ruining roses go - Clark Ashton Smith "Quest"
That harvest none shall glean - Clark Ashton Smith "Quest"
All the crownless, ruined years - Clark Ashton Smith "Recompense"
Of the sun's half-dreamt decay - Clark Ashton Smith "The Refuge of Beauty"
At portals dark and desperate - Clark Ashton Smith "The Refuge of Beauty"
The snows of forgetfulness - Clark Ashton Smith "Remembered Light"
In one swifter hour of flame - Clark Ashton Smith "Remembered Light"
Full of an umber twilight - Clark Ashton Smith "Remembered Light"
Shivered with outcry of eldritch voices - Clark Ashton Smith "Remembered Light"
Echo hath taken the song - Clark Ashton Smith "Requiescat"
In autumns lost of memory - Clark Ashton Smith "Requiescat in Pace"
The golden queens of planets long forgot - Clark Ashton Smith "Requiescat in Pace"
Came on my dream in thunder - Clark Ashton Smith "The Retribution"
Ghouls that batten on the past - Clark Ashton Smith "Retrospect and Forecast"
Loveliness find root within decay - Clark Ashton Smith "Retrospect and Forecast"
And night devour its flaming hues - Clark Ashton Smith "Retrospect and Forecast"
The dungeon-clefts of Tartarus - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
Closes the soul in a crypt of dread - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
Fluctuates between the mountains and the stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
Set as guards above the prison - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
Above the prison of the captive Titan-god - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
Hyperion divides the pillared vault of dark - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
The sentinel stars are dead - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
Some vast cacophony of dragons - Clark Ashton Smith "Satan Unrepentant"
My autumn heart confesses - Clark Ashton Smith "Satiety"
The Titans gathered round their king - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Beneath the bright scorn of the stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Of threatened worlds and trembling firmaments - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
A trumpet-voice of phantom hosts - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Through the sky like severing swords - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Sharp levin leaping in the north - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
The crumbling coasts of Matter - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Black desert gripped in iron silences - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Startled the haughty stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Their will as reins upon the sun - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Cuts the strained knot of destiny - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
None venturing to risk comparison - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Whereon the shadows lay like rust - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Red upon the forefront of the north - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Arcturus was a beacon to the winds - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
That was the nurse of infant Death - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
The eldritch laughters of the wind - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Stood in silent ranks expectant - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Their storms and thunders spent - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
March with the diminished stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Yield rose-dust and ivy-leaf - Clark Ashton Smith "Sepulture"
Hieroglyphics of abhorrent doom - Clark Ashton Smith "Shadow of Nightmare"
That bleeds in cloud and darkness - Clark Ashton Smith "Solution"
Bitter dreams I bring - Clark Ashton Smith "Song"
The sun's uncharted orbits bind - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of a Comet"
Close to the zones of solar fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of a Comet"
Beneath the star's unheeding eyes - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of a Comet"
Gold from the mines of the past - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
Find sustenance in shadows - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
Protection against the swords of the world - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
Of my dreams have I builded an inn - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
The hollowness of the unharvestable wind - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
Who harvest with the scythe of thought - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
The spirits of years unborn - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
A choral chant of flame - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of the Stars"
The voices of comet and asteroid - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of the Stars"
Where the silent maelstroms lurk and hide - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of the Stars"
Rises and ebbs in a tide of fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of the Stars"
Bestowed by fruitful Time's magnificence - Clark Ashton Smith "Song to Oblivion"
The crystal of unquestioned sleep - Clark Ashton Smith "The Sorrow of the Winds"
Cried to me in a dawn of dreams - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
All the threads of earth wear to the breaking - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Tread unharmed the blaze of stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Strikes off the chains of Time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Swings back the door of years - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
The thread and weaving of his way - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Swept beyond the brink of Sense - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Caught me from the clasping world - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Chained and hurled with solar lightning - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Rays that leap from severed suns - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Twisting of the threads of years - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Weavings wrought of noon and night - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Watched the dream unroll - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
That form the raiment of the soul - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Enkindling dawns of memory - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Alien ciphers shown and lit - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Loose all burden of old woes - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
The central music of the Pleiades - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
A revenant in worlds Edenic - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Diverse as Hell's mad antiphone - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
To render strong Antares blind - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Brows that starry Grief had crowned - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Hot from the furnace of the suns - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Where Rigel sends no word of might - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
And dwindled to the sun's extent - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Like woven amber, finely spun - Clark Ashton Smith "Strangeness"
Fleeing moons a traveller sees - Clark Ashton Smith "Strangeness"
The tears of mist and fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Tears of Lilith"
Upon the wind's oblivious woe - Clark Ashton Smith "To Nora May French"
Starward incense of the waning rose - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"
The glad and golden death of spring - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"
Weeps with frozen tears - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"
With time's inexorable mystery - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"
The bleak and bitter spell - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"
The empty truth of tears - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"
Golden stem of roses of illusion - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Beloved"
As eagles' wings in the quest of Truth - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Darkness"
That hands may not rend - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Darkness"
A roof with many beams and pillars - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Sun"
By the reins of invisible lightnings - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Sun"
Fall into the furnace of Arcturus - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Sun"
Fail not upon the road of space - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Sun"
That bloom but to an azure sun - Clark Ashton Smith "Triple Aspect"
Ancient lips to silence vowed - Clark Ashton Smith "Twilight on the Snow"
And the climber slips down gulfs of fear - Clark Ashton Smith "The Unrevealed"
Clear flame in lands extreme - Clark Ashton Smith "A Vision of Lucifer"
Bound with final frost - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"
Unshadowed flame of phantom suns - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"
Phantom suns in self-irradiance drowned - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"
Wherewith the suns and worlds were dyed - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"
All darkness rendered shelterless - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"
And its burden of vain desire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Wind and the Moon"
On the wings of the hastening wind - Clark Ashton Smith "The Wind and the Moon"
Lies unstirred at summer's heart - Clark Ashton Smith "The Winds"
Pale as with eternal sleep - Clark Ashton Smith "Winter Moonlight"
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