Selected Poems

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Arkham House, US: (1971)

403pp, 2118 copies, black cloth, dust wrapper by Gary Gore

Table of Contents:

• Clark Ashton Smith, Emperor of Shadows - Benjamin de Casseres

The Star Treader

• 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
• Ode on Imagination
• The Maze of Sleep
• The Winds
• The Masque of Forsaken Gods
• A Sunset (As)
• The Summer Moon
• The Return of Hyperion
• Lethe (I)
• Atlantis
• The Unremembered
• The Eldritch Dark
• The Cherry-Snows
• Nirvana
• White Death
• Retrospect And Forecast
• Shadow of Nightmare
• The Song of A Comet
• The Retribution
• To the Darkness
• A Dream of Beauty
• The Dream-Bridge
• Pine Needles
• To the Sun
• Averted Malefice
• The Medusa of the Skies
• A Dead City
• A Song of Dreams
• The Balance
• Saturn
• Finis

Additional 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
• Dolor of Dreams
• The City of Destruction
• Luna Aeternalis
• To the Daemon of Sublimity

Ebony and Crystal

• 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 (II)
• In Lemuria
• Recompense
• Exotique
• Transcendence
• Satiety (Dear)
• 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
• The Hidden Paradise
• A Precept
• Remembered Light
• Song (I)
• Haunting
• Cleopatra
• Ecstasy
• A Psalm to the Best Beloved
• Symbols
• The Hashish Eater -or- the Apocalypse of Evil
• 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 (The)
• 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
• Nocturne
• 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 (M.L.M.)
• Alexandrines
• Ashes of Sunset
• November Twilight
• Sepulture
• Quest
• Beauty Implacable
• A Vision of Lucifer
• Desire of Vastness
• Antepast
• The Witch in the Graveyard
• Memorial
• The Horologe
• "That Last infirmity"
• The Orchid of Beauty
• The Last Goddess
• The Flight of Azrael

Sandalwood

• Semblance
• The Song of Aviol
• We Shall Meet (I)
• 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 (Vagrant)
• Minatory
• Maya
• Interrogation
• Consolation
• The Barrier
• Apologia
• Estrangement
• Loss
• A Catch
• Don Juan Sings
• On Re-Reading Baudelaire
• To the Chimera

Translations and Paraphrases

From Charles P. Baudelaire

• A Parisian Dream (CXXVI. Rêve parisien)
• Hymn to Beauty (XXII. Hymne à la Beauté)
• The Ideal (XVIII. L’Idéal)
• Semper Eadem (XLI. Semper Eadem)
• The Giantess (XX. La Géante)
• Examination at Midnight (LXXXIX. L’Examen de minuit)
• Doubtful Skies (LI. Ciel Brouillé)
• The Sick Muse (VII. La Muse Malade)
• Mœsta et errabunda (LXIV. Moesta et errabunda)
• The Fountain of Blood (CXXXVIII. La Fontaine de san)
• Evening Harmony (XLVIII. L’Harmonie du Soir)
• The Spiritual Dawn (XLVII. L’Aube Spirituelle)
• The Wine of Lovers (CXXXII. Le Vin des Amants)
• The Death of Lovers (CXLVI. La Mort des Amants)
• Obsession (LXXXI. Obsession)
• Alchemy of Sorrow (LXXXII. Alchimie de la douleur)
• Sympathetic Horror (LXXXIII. Horreur sympathique)
• The Owls (LXIX. Les Hiboux)
• The Phantom (LXV. Le Revenant)
• Mists and Rains (CXXV. Brumes et pluies)
• Sed non Satiata (XXVII. Sed non Satiata)
• Spleen (LXXX. Spleen)
• Song of Autumn (LVII. Chant d’automne)
• Anterior Life (XII. La Vie Antérieure)
• Lethe (II. Le Léthé)
• The Irremediable (CVI. L’Irrémédiable)
• Beatrice (CXL. La Béatrice)
• The Voice (XCIII. La Voix)
• The Poison (L. Le Poison)
• The Two Kind Sisters (CXXXVII. Les Deux Bonnes Soeurs)
• The Metamorphoses of the Vampire (VI. Les Métamorphoses du Vampire)

From Paul Verlaine

• Moonlight (Claire de lune)
• The Faun (Le Faune)
• En Sourdine (En Sourdine)
• Ariettes Oubliées IX (Ariettes Oubliées IX)
• Crimen Amoris (Crimen Amoris)

From Victor Hugo

• The Wheel of Omphale (Le Rouet d’Omphale)

From José-Maria de Heredia

• Oblivion (L’Oubli)

From Leconte de Lisle

• Ecclesiastes (L’Ecclésiaste)
• The Sleep of the Condor

From Pierre Lièvre

• Elysian Landscape (Paysage Elyséen)

From Christopher des Laurières

• The Pagan
• Madrigal
• The Nymph
• Chansonette
• An Old theme
• Classic Epigram
• Exotic Memory
• By the River
• Moments
• Tempus
• Tristan to Iseult
• Concupiscence
• Heliogabalus
• Secret Love
• Psalm
• In Alexandria
• Satiety (A)
• The Whisper of the Worm
• The Funeral Urn
• Mors

From Gustavo Adolfo Béquer

• Where? (Rimas XXXVIII)

From José A. Calcaño

• The Cypress (El ciprés)

From Clérigo Herrero

• "That Motley Drama"

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 (Deep)
• 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
• Un Paysage Paîen
• The Outer Land
• A Dream of the Abyss
• To Howard Phillips Lovecraft
• After Armageddon
• Chance
• Ennui (In)
• Apostrophe
• Sonnet (Empress)
• 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
• Anteros

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

Sestets

• Copyist
• Love And Death

Experments 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 (From)
• Perseus And Medusa
• Odysseus 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
• Nocturnal 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
• High Mountain Juniper
• Storm's End
• Pool At Lobos
• Poet in A Barroom
• Fallen Grape-Leaf
• Slaughter-House Pasture
• Gopher-Hole in 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-Fight
• 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 Abatoir
• 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

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 (I)
• 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 (O)
• 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 (How)
• "All is Dross that is not Helena"
• Amor
• The Sorceror to His Love
• Twilight Song
• Before Dawn
• Amor Hesternalis
• Supplication
• Erato
• The Hill of Dionysus
• Anodyne of Autumn
• Nocturne: Grant Avenue
• Future Pastoral
• Postlude
• Midnight Beach
• Even in Slumber
• De Profundis clamavi (XXXI. De profundis clamavi)
• Illumination
• Omniety
• From Arcady
• Sea Cycle
• Do You Forget, Enchantress?
• No Stranger Dream
• On the Mount of Stone
• Calenture
• Avowal

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