Selected Poems (C. A. Smith) - Contents

Contents

Selected Poems contains the following:

1. "Clark Ashton Smith: Emperor of Shadows", by Benjamin DeCasseres
2. The Star-Treader and Other Poems
   • "Nero"
   • "Chant to Sirius"
   • "The Star-Treader"
   • "The Night Forest"
   • "The Mad Wind"
   • "Medusa"
   • "Ode to the Abyss"
   • "The Butterfly"
   • "The Price"
   • "The Meaning"
   • "The Last Night"
   • "Odeon Imagination"
   • "The Maze of Sleep"
   • "The Winds"
   • "A Masque of Forsaken Gods"
   • "A Sunset"
   • "The Summer Moon"
   • "The Return of Hyperion"
   • "Lethe"
   • "Atlantis"
   • "The Unremembered"
   • "The Eldritch Dark"
   • "The Cherry-Snows"
   • "Nirvana"
   • "White Death"
   • "Retrospect and Forecast"
   • "Shadow of Nightmare"
   • "Song of a Comet"
   • "The Retribution"
   • "To the Darkness"
   • "A Dream of beauty"
   • "Pine Needles"
   • "To the Sun"
   • "Averted Malefice"
   • "The Medusa of the Skies"
   • "A Dead City"
   • "A Song of Dreams"
   • "The Balance"
   • "Saturn"
   • "Finis"
3. Additional Early Poems
   • "The Pursuer"
   • "Said the Dreamer"
   • "The City of the Titans"
   • "In the Wind"
   • "Fire of Snow"
   • "To Beauty"
   • "Decadence"
   • "In the Desert"
   • "The Blindness of Orion"
   • "Somnus"
   • "The Nameless Wraith"
   • "Color of Dreams"
   • "The City of Destruction"
   • "Luna Aeternalis"
   • "To the Daemon of Sublimity"
4. Ebony and Crystal
   • "Preface", by George Sterling
   • "Arabesque"
   • "Beyond the Great Wall"
   • "To Omar Khayyam"
   • "Strangeness"
   • "The Infinite Quest"
   • "Rosa Mystica"
   • "The Nereid"
   • "In Saturn"
   • "Impression"
   • "Triple Aspect"
   • "Desolation"
   • "A Fragment"
   • "Crepuscule"
   • "Inferno"
   • "Mirrors"
   • "Belated Love"
   • "The Absence of the Muse"
   • "Dissonance"
   • "To Nora May French"
   • "In Lemuria"
   • "Recompense"
   • "Exotique"
   • "Transcendence"
   • "Satiety"
   • "The Ministers of Law"
   • "Coldness"
   • "The Crucifixion of Eros"
   • "The Exile"
   • "Ave Atque Vale"
   • "Song of Sappho's Arabian Daughter"
   • "Solution"
   • "The Tears of Lilith"
   • "A Precept"
   • "Remembered Light"
   • "Song"
   • "Haunting"
   • "The Hidden Paradise"
   • "Cleopatra"
   • "Ecstasy"
   • "A Psalm to the Best Beloved"
   • "Symbols"
   • "The Hashish-Eater"
   • "The Sorrow of the Winds"
   • "Artemis"
   • "Love is Not Yours, Love is Not Mine"
   • "The City in the Desert"
   • "The Melancholy Pool"
   • "The Mirrors of Beauty"
   • "Winter Moonlight"
   • "To the Beloved"
   • "Requiescat"
   • "Mirage"
   • "Inheritance"
   • "Chant of Autumn"
   • "Nevermore"
   • "Echo of Memnon"
   • "Twilight on the Snow"
   • "Image"
   • "The Refuge of Beauty"
   • "Nightmare"
   • "Forgetfulness"
   • "Flamingoes"
   • "The Chimera"
   • "The Incubus of time"
   • "Satan Unrepentant"
   • "The Abyss Triumphant"
   • "The Motes"
   • "The Medusa of Despair"
   • "Laus Mortis"
   • "Noctourne"
   • "The Ghoul and the Seraph"
   • "Metaphor"
   • "Sea-Memory"
   • "At Sunrise"
   • "The Land of Evil Stars"
   • "The Harlot of the World"
   • "Amor Aeternalis"
   • "The Hope of the Infinite"
   • "Palms"
   • "Memnon at Midnight"
   • "Eidolon"
   • "The Kingdom of Shadows"
   • "Requiescat in Pace"
   • "Alexandrines"
   • "Alexandrins"
   • "Ashes of Sunset"
   • "November Twilight"
   • "Sepulture"
   • "Quest"
   • "Beauty Implacable"
   • "A Vision of Lucifer"
   • "Desire of Vastness"
   • "Antepast"
   • "The Witch in the Graveyard"
   • "Memorial"
   • "The Horologue"
   • "'The Last Infirmity'"
   • "The Orchid of Beauty"
   • "The Last Goddess"
   • "The Flight of Azrael"
5. Sandalwood
   • "Semblance"
   • "The Song of Aviol"
   • "We Shall Meet"
   • "Forgotten Sorrow"
   • "You Are Not Beautiful"
   • "Lemurienne"
   • "Dissidence"
   • "Sestet"
   • "Change"
   • "Query"
   • "Enigma"
   • "Incognita"
   • "The Secret"
   • "The End of Autumn"
   • "The Love-Potion"
   • "The Song of Cartha"
   • "Afterwards"
   • "Contradiction"
   • "The Last Oblivion"
   • "Autumn Orchards"
   • "Remembrance"
   • "The Wingless Archangels"
   • "Moon Dawn"
   • "Lunar Mystery"
   • "Enchanted Mirrors"
   • "Duality"
   • "A Valediction"
   • "Selenique"
   • "Alienage"
   • "Adventure"
   • "On the Canyon-Side"
   • "Song"
   • "Minatory"
   • "Maya"
   • "Interrogation"
   • "Consolation"
   • "The Barrier"
   • "Apologia"
   • "Estrangement"
   • "Loss"
   • "A Catch"
   • "Don Juan Sings"
   • "On Rereading Baudelaire"
   • "To the Chimera"
6. Translations and Paraphrases
   • From Charles P. Baudelaire
     • "Untitled extract from Hymne"
     • "A Parisian Dream"
     • "Hymn to Beauty"
     • "The Ideal"
     • "Semper Eadem"
     • "The Giantess"
     • "Examination at Midnight"
     • "Doubtful Skies"
     • "The Sick Muse"
     • "Moesta et Errabunda"
     • "The Fountain of Blood"
     • "Evening Harmony"
     • "The Spiritual Dawn"
     • "The Wine of Lovers"
     • "The Death of Lovers"
     • "Obsession"
     • "Alchemy of Sorrow"
     • "Sympathetic Horror"
     • "The Owls"
     • "The Phantom"
     • "Mists and Rains"
     • "Sed Non Satiata"
     • "Spleen"
     • "Song of Autumn"
     • "Anterior Life"
     • "Lethe"
     • "The Irremediable"
     • "Beatrice"
     • "The Voice"
     • "The Poison"
     • "The Two Kind Sisters"
     • "The Metamorphoses of the Vampire"
   • From Paul Verlaine
     • "Moonlight"
     • "The Faun"
     • "En Courdine"
     • "IX (Arlettes Oubliés)"
     • "Crimen Amoris"
   • From Victor Hugo
     • "The Wheel of Omphale"
   • From José-Maria de Heredia"
     • "Oblivion"
   • From Leconte de Lisle
     • "Ecclesiastes"
     • "The Sleep of the Condor"
   • From Pierre Lievre
     • "Elysian Landscape"
   • From Christophe des Laurieres
     • "The Pagan"
     • "Madrigal"
     • "The Nymph"
     • "Chansonette"
     • "An Old Theme"
     • "Classic Epigram"
     • "Exotic Memory"
     • "By the River"
     • "Moments"
     • "Tempus"
     • "Tristan to Iscult"
     • "Concupiscence"
     • "Heliogabalus"
     • "Secret Love"
     • "Psalm"
     • "In Alexandria"
     • "Satiety"
     • "The Whisper of the Worm"
     • "The Funeral Urn"
     • "Mors"
   • From Gustavo Adolpho Béquer
     • "Where?"
   • From Jose A. Calcaño
     • "The Cypress"
   • From Clérigo Herrero
     • "'That Motley Drama'"
7. Incantations
   • "La Forteresse"
   • "Outlanders"
   • "The Envoys"
   • "Shadows"
   • "Nyctalops"
   • "On a Chinese Vase"
   • "Jungle Twilight"
   • "The Phoenix"
   • "The Thralls of Circe Climb Parnassus"
   • "To George Sterling: A Valediction"
   • "To George Sterling"
   • "La Mare"
   • "Vaticinations"
   • "The Hill-Top"
   • "The Old Water-Wheel"
   • "Lichens"
   • "Cumuli"
   • "October"
   • "December"
   • "Necromancy"
   • "The Witch With Eyes of Amber"
   • "Lamia"
   • "Dialogue"
   • "In Slumber"
   • "Warning"
   • "The Nightmare Tarn"
   • "Cambion"
   • "Tolometh"
   • "Desert Dweller"
   • "The Prophet Speaks"
   • "A Fable"
   • "Au Bord du Léthé"
   • "L'Espoir du Néant"
   • "Farewell to Eros"
   • "Alternative"
   • "Moly"
   • "Paysage Paîen"
   • "The Outer Land"
   • "A Dream of the Abyss"
   • "To Howard Phillips Lovecraft"
   • "After Armageddon"
   • "Chance"
   • "Ennui"
   • "Apostrophe"
   • "Sonnet"
   • "The Saturnienne"
   • "Revenant"
   • "Une Vie Spectrale"
   • "Song of the Necromancer"
   • "In Thessaly"
   • "Lines on a Picture"
   • "Hellenic Sequel"
   • "Refuge"
   • "Only to One Returned"
   • "But Grant, O Venus"
   • "Town Lights"
   • "Strange Girl"
   • "Some Blind Eidolon"
   • "If Winter Remain"
   • "Pour Chercher du Nouveau"
   • "Antero"
8. Quintrains
   • "Attar of the Past"
   • "Passing of an Elder God"
   • "Nightmare of the Lilliputian"
   • "Poets in Hades"
   • "Mummy of the Flower"
   • "The Heron"
   • "Bird of Long Ago"
   • "Mithridates"
   • "Someone"
   • "Late November Evening"
   • "Quiddity"
   • "Epitaph for an Astronomer"
9. Sestets
   • "Copyist"
   • "Love and Death"
10. Experiments in Haiku
    • Strange Miniatures
      • "Unicorn"
      • "Untold Arabian Fable"
      • "A Hunter Meets the Martichoras"
      • "The Limniad"
      • "The Sciapod"
      • "The Monacle"
      • "Feast of St. Anthony"
      • "Paphnutius"
      • "Philtre"
      • "Borderland"
      • "Lethe"
      • "Perseus and Medusa"
      • "Osysseus in Eternity"
      • "The Ghost of Theseus"
    • Distillations
      • "Fence and Wall"
      • "Growth of Lichen"
      • "Cats in Winter"
      • "Sunlight"
      • "Abandoned Plum-Orchard"
      • "Harvest Evening"
      • "Willow-Cutting in Autumn"
      • "Declining Moon"
      • "Late Pear-Pruner"
      • "Noctournal Pines"
      • "Phallus Impudica"
      • "Stormy Afterglow"
      • "Geese in the Spring Night"
      • "Foggy Night"
      • "Reigning Empress"
      • "The Sparrow's Nest"
      • "The Last Apricot"
      • "Mushroom-Gatherers"
      • "Spring Nunnery"
      • "Nuns Walking in the Orchard"
      • "Improbable Dream"
      • "Crows in Spring"
      • "Slaughter-House in Spring"
      • "High Mountain Juniper"
      • "Storm's End"
      • "Pool at Lobos"
      • "Poet in a Barroom"
      • "Fallen Grape-Leaf"
      • "Slaughter-House Pasture"
      • "Gopher-Hole in an Orchard"
      • "Basin in Boulder"
      • "Indian Acorn-Mortar"
      • "Old Limestone Kiln"
      • "Love in Dreams"
      • "Night of Miletus"
      • "Tryst at Lobos"
      • "Prisoner in Vain"
      • "Mountain Trail"
      • "Future Meeting"
      • "Classic Reminiscence"
      • "Goats and Manzanita-Boughs"
      • "Picture by Piero di Cosimo"
      • "Garden of Priapus"
      • "Bed of Mint"
      • "Chainless Captive"
      • "January Willow"
      • "Snowfall on Acacia"
      • "Flight of the Yellow-Hammer"
      • "Sunset Over Farm-Land"
      • "Flora"
      • "Windows at Lamplighting Time"
      • "Old Hydraulic Diggings"
      • "Hearth on Old Cabin-Site"
      • "Builder of Deserted Hearth"
      • "Aftermath of Mining Days"
      • "River-Canyon"
    • Childhood
      • "School-Room Pastime"
      • "Boys Telling Bawdy Tales"
      • "Water-Flight"
      • "Boys Rob a Yellow-Hammer's Nest"
      • "Grammar-School Vixen"
      • "Girl of Six"
    • Mortal Essences
      • "Snake, Owl, Cat or Hawk"
      • "Cattle Salute the Psychopomp"
      • "Field Behind the Abattoir"
      • "Plague from the Abatoir"
      • "La Mort des Amants"
      • "Vultures Come to the Ambarvalia"
      • "For the Dance of Death"
      • "Berries of the Deadly Nightshade"
      • "Water-Hemlock"
      • "Felo-de-se of the Parasite"
11. Satires and Travesties
    • "Disillusionment"
    • "Almost Anything"
    • "To Whom it May Concern"
    • "Tin Can on the Mountain-Top"
    • "Surrealist Sonnet"
    • "Sonnet for the Psychoanalysts"
    • "Parnassus à la Mode"
    • The Jasmine Girdle
    • "The Nevermore-to-be"
    • "Fantaisie D'Antan"
    • "One Evening"
    • "Trope"
    • "Canticle"
    • "Venus"
    • "November"
    • "Le Miroir des Blanches Fleurs"
    • "Les Marées"
    • "The Autumn Lake"
    • "Winter Moonlight"
    • "To Antares"
    • "Connaissance"
    • "Exorcism"
    • "Calendar"
    • "Madrigal of Evanescence"
    • "September"
    • "Indian Summer"
    • "The Dragon-Fly"
    • "Touch"
    • "Sufficiency"
    • "Ineffability"
    • "Mystery"
    • "Dominion"
    • The Hill of Dionysus
    • "Dancer"
    • "Bacchante"
    • "Wizard's Love"
    • "Resurrection"
    • "Witch Dance"
    • "Paean"
    • "The Knoll"
    • "Interim"
    • "Reverie in August"
    • "Wine of Summer"
    • "Ode"
    • "For an Antique Lyre"
    • "Silent Hour"
    • "To One Absent"
    • "Bond"
    • "The Mime of Sleep"
    • "Madrigal of Memory"
    • "Fragment"
    • "Humors of Love"
    • "Grecian Yesterday"
    • "Yerba Buena"
    • "Sonnet"
    • "'All is Dross That is Not Helena'"
    • "Amor"
    • "The Sorcerer to His Love"
    • "Twilight Song"
    • "Before Dawn"
    • "Amor Hesternalis"
    • "Supplication"
    • "Erato"
    • "The Hill of Dionysus"
    • "Anodyne of Autumn"
    • "Noctourne: Grant Avenue"
    • "Future Pastoral"
    • "Postlude"
    • "Midnight Beach"
    • "Even in Slumber"
    • "De Profundis"
    • "llumination"
    • "Omniety"
    • "From Arcady"
    • "Sea Cycle"
    • "Did You Forget, Enchantress?"
    • "No Stranger Dream"
    • "On the Mount of Stone"
    • "Calenture"
    • "Avowal"