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Big thing with teeth Tui Sutherland · "Swimming in the ocean is not like swimming in an underground cave river", Starflight lectured. "Ther…
Give Me Your Lips Clark Ashton Smith Poetry · desire,fire,permanence,sensory Give me your lips: Like to some scarlet fruit of Paradise That grew before the gates were barred, The…
La Géante (The Giantess) Charles Baudelaire Poetry · enormity,tenderness,shelter,desire In times when Nature, filled with fervor limitless, Conceived and brought to birth many a monstrous c…
Incarnate Beauty Clark Ashton Smith Poetry · beauty,transcendence,vision,loss I dreamed that each most lovely, perfect thing That nature hath, of sound and form and hue— The winds…
By the Clear Green River Clark Ashton Smith Poetry · transience,beauty,autumn,love By the clear green river, One afternoon in early autumn, A dragon-fly with crimson wings alit On the …
It Seems to Me That I Have Lived Alone Clark Ashton Smith Poetry · loneliness,cosmic,longing It seems to me that I have lived alone— Alone, as one that liveth in a dream: As light on coldest mar…
For Pity, Not for Love Clark Ashton Smith Poetry · regret,love,absence For pity, not for love (Because you loved me so) With undesirous lips I kissed you long ago. You wer…
All That I Remember Clark Ashton Smith Poetry · memory,loss,smallness All that I remember From a dim and verdant spring Long dead Is, that one bright mouche of red Patched…
Bleak Is the Night Clark Ashton Smith Poetry · insomnia,longing,night Bleak is the night and long While slumber waits apart, Refusing this lone heart, These lips forlorn o…
The Sunken City Clark Ashton Smith Poetry · atmosphere,ruin,beauty,ocean Above its domes the gulfs accumulate. Far up, the sea-gales blare their bitter screed: But here the b…
God Walks Lightly Clark Ashton Smith Poetry · entropy,divinity,death God walks lightly in the gardens of a cold, dark star, Knowing not the dust that gathers in His garme…
The Hashish-Eater — opening Clark Ashton Smith Poetry · cosmic,grandiosity,dissolution Bow down: I am the emperor of dreams; I crown me with the million-colored sun Of secret worlds incred…