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Department of Literature
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Clark Ashton 
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BIO
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Clark Ashton Smith


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A gallery of images from the life of CAS

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WORKS
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Selected Works of Clark Ashton Smith

The Gorgon
The Immeasurable Horror
The Maker of Gargoyles
The Monster of Prophecy
The Necromantic Tale
The Planet of the Dead
The Ressurrection of the Rattlesnake
Sadastor
The Seed from the Sepulchre
The Supernumerary Corpse
The Testament of Athammaus
 
 


Alchemy of Sorrow

Translated "from the French of Charles Pierre Baudelaire"

One with his fervor shall inform
The world, and one with all his sorrow:
One sees a glad, unsetting morrow,
One hears the whisper of the worm.

Hermes unknown, whose hand assists
My toil, and fills my dreams with fear,
Through thee I am the mournful peer
Of Midas, first of alchemists.

Fine gold to iron corruptible
I turn, and paradise to hell;
In winding-sheets of cloud and levin
A dear cadaver I descry;
And build upon the shores of heaven
Towering proud sarcophagi
 

Beyond the Door

Alas! the evanescence of a dream,
  That, like a rose, shall never blossom more!
  A glimpse of unguessed things, and then the door
Of waking sense clangs to. Alas! the Gleam,
The visioned Secret and the Light supreme,
  That one at moments nears, when, lo! the pall
  Of veiling darkness drops and covers all -
The darkness of the daylight's aureate beam!

Leaving but an elusive memory -
  A heavenly cadence, a supernal word,
  Never but half-recalled. In dreams are heard
Who knows what tidings from Eternity,
  Transcendant, strange! Alas! we may not bring
  Aught past the gateway of Awakening!
 

You Are Not Beautiful

You are not beautiful; but, ah, too long
I sought, and found a slowly growing grace;
Till fairer now than beauty is your face,
And all your silence dearer than a song.

Nyctalops
 
 

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