Clark Ashton Smith Poems

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71.
The Noon Of The Seasons

Now comes the Seasons' high and ardent noon,
Fulfillment of Spring's youthful prophecy,
Full-flow red and fruited. Hesitatingly
She follows on the last, late showers of June,
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72.
Grant Avenue

The city's towers were limned in fire
When, down the long, the hill-descending street,
We rode as down some cataract of stars:
Our hearts replete
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73.
Maya

Fools of the world, who dream that dreams are true—
Believing still that life is what it seems,
And trustful that the world is more than dreams—
Free for a little, I have laughed at you:
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74.
The Masque Of Forsaken Gods

How pale the sapphire of the central night,
Wherein the stars turn grey! The summer's green,
Edgéd and strong by day, is dull and faint
Beneath the moon's all-monorating mood,
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75.
Les Marées

Mon coeur se desemplit d'une immense rancune
Qui retire sa mer sous quelque occulte lune.
Sous quelque lune noire, au lointain de l'esprit:
Aux sables trop lavés, les eaux d'amour ont ri,
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76.
La Mare

La lune décroissante
Se couche en noir dédale
D'une aunaie automnale
Dans la unit sans luisante.
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77.
Malediction

While the black perennial snows
Piled about the pole of night
Swell the fount whence Lethe flows;
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78.
Madrigal Of Memory

To my remote abandonment
Your deep and lustrous hair has lent
How many an autumn-colored dream;
Your eyes bring many an April gleam
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79.
The Messengers

Catching a little wind's unrest,
The dandelion-crests dissolve,
Where swooping wings of air involve
And lift them to a scattered quest.
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80.
Memorial

Thy mouth, whereof the worm was amorous,
Thy brows, whereon some waning moon had power,
Thy breasts, corruptible as any flower,
And all thy troubled beauty tremulous—
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