CLARK ASHTON SMITH

The Complete Poetryand Translations

Volume 2: The Wine of Summer

Edited by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz

Hippocampus Press

New York

Contents

Spectral life {1927-1929) 373Les Violons 375Au bord du Lethe 375The Nevermore-to-Be 375Fantaisie d'antan 376Canticle 377A Fable 378De Consolation 378De Consolation 378Simile 379Trope 379Venus 379One Evening 380Tristan to Iseult 380Souvenance 381ToAntares 381Song.... 382Amor Autumnalis 382Warning 383Temporality 383Chansonette 384Chansonette 384Credo :. 385The Autumn Lake 385Le Lac d'automne 385On a Chinese Vase 385November 386Chanson de Novembre 386Chanson de Novembre 387Exorcism 387Winter Moonlight 388Connaissance 388Harmony 389Moon-Sight 389Sonnet 390Similitudes 390Calendar...., 391February 391Variations 392Sufficiency 392

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Lichens 393Vaticinations 393Nyctalops 393The Hill-Top 395L'Amour supreme 395L'Amour supreme 396Alexandrins 396Absence 397Une Vie spectrale 397Spectral Life 398Seins 399LesMarees 399Paysage pai'en 400Le Souvenir 400Revasserie 401La Mare 402Le Miroir des blanches fieurs 402Le Miroir des blanches fleurs 403The Dragon-Fly 404September 404Shadows 405Evanescence 406Fellowship 406Ougabalys 407Ineffability 408The Nightmare Tarn 408Cumuli 409Refuge 410

Some Older Bourn (1930-1938) 447Answer 449Song at Evenfall 449jungle Twilight 450Madrigal of Evanescence 450Solicitation 451An Old Theme 451Psalm 452The Pool 453Revenant 453A Dream of the Abyss 454In Slumber 455Necromancy 456Oudanders 457

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Dominion 457InThessaly 458The Phoenix 458The Outer Land 459Day-Dream ....461Contra Mortem 462The Cycle 462Kin 463Sanctuary 463Simile 463Le Refuge 464Le Refuge 464La Forteresse 465The Fortress 465Sonnet 466Ennui 466Adjuration 466Song of the Necromancer 467Reves printaniers 468Reves printaniers 468Amour bizarre 469L'Ensorcellement 469Le Fabliau d'un dieu 470Orgueil 471Sea-Memory 471Farewell to Eros 471Indian Summer 472Mystery 473Touch 473To Howard Phillips Lovecraft 474

• The Prophet Speaks 475Desert Dweller 476Requiescat 476Wizard's Love Error! Bookmark not defined.

The Last and Utmost Land (1939-1947) 479FromArcady 481Ode 481Sestet 482Bacchante 482Resurrection 483Witch-Dance 484Song of the Bacchic Bards 485

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Anteros 486Lamia 486Interim 487Sonnet 488To One Absent 488Silent Hour 489Grecian Yesterday 490But Grant, O Venus 490Bond 491Madrigal of Memory 491"That Last Infirmity" 492The Thralls of Circe Climb Parnassus 492Dialogue 492The Mime of Sleep 493The Old Water-Wheel 493Fragment 494YerbaBuena 494Consummation 495Humors of Love 495Town Lights 496The Sorcerer to His Love 497To George Sterling 497L'Espoir du neant 498Amor Hesternalis 498"All Is Dross That Is Not Helena" 499Future Pastoral 499Wine of Summer 500In Another August 501Nocturne: Grant Avenue 501Classic Epigram 502Twilight Song 503Supplication 503Erato 504Anodyne of Autumn 504The Hill of Dionysus 505Before Dawn 506Amor 507Interval 507Postlude 508Strange Girl 508DeProfundis I... 509Midnight Beach 510

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Illumination 511Omniety 511Even in Slumber 511Moly 512Cambion 512The Knoll 513For an Antique Lyre 514On Trying to Read Four Quartets 514Greek Epigram 515Lines on a Picture 515Alternative 515Hymn ....516The Sorcerer Departs 516Surrealist Sonnet ;- 517Paean 517Do You Forget, Enchantress? 518The Horologe 518Parnassus a la Mode 518Sea Cycle 518Dancer 519Nevermore 519Reverie in August 520Tin Can on the Mountain-Top 520Some Blind Eidolon 521The Pursuer 523To Bacchante 523Calenture 523Copyist 525Love and Death 525

Quintrains 525Essence 525Epitaph for an Astronomer 525The Heron 525Bird of Long Ago 526Late November Evening 526Mithridates 526Mummy of the Flower 526Nightmare of the Lilliputian 526Passing of an Elder God 527Poets in Hades 527Quiddity 527Someone 527Dying Prospector 527

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Experiments in Haiku (1947) 529Strange Miniatures 531

Unicorn 531Untold Arabian Fable 531A Hunter Meets the Martichoras 531The Limniad 531TheSciapod 531TheMonacle 531Feast of St. Anthony 531Paphnutius 532Philtre 532Borderland 532Lethe 532Empusa Waylays a Traveller 532Perseus and Medusa 532Odysseus in Eternity 532The Ghost of Theseus 533

Distillations 533Fence and Wall 533Growth of Lichen 533Cats in Winter Sunlight 533Abandoned Plum-Orchard 533Harvest Evening 533Willow-Cutting in Autumn 533Declining Moon 534Late Pear-Pruner 534Nocturnal Pines 534Phallus Impudica 534Stormy Afterglow '. 534Geese in the Spring Night 534Foggy Night 534Reigning Empress 535The Sparrow's Nest 535The Last Apricot 535Mushroom-Gatherers 535Spring Nunnery 535Nuns Walking in the Orchard 535Improbable Dream 535Crows in Spring 536High Mountain Juniper.. 536Storm's End 536Pool at Lobos 536

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Poet in a Barroom 536Fallen Grape-Leaf 536Gopher-Hole in Orchard 536Basin in Boulder 537Indian Acorn-Mortar 537Old Limestone Kiln 537Love in Dreams 537Night of Miletus 537Tryst at Lobos 537Mountain Trail 537Future Meeting 538Classic Reminiscence 538Goats and Manzanita-Boughs 538Bed of Mint 538Chainless Captive.... 538California Winter 538January Willow 538Snowfall on Acacia 539Flight of the Yellow-Hammer 539Sunset over Farm-Land 539Flora 539Windows at Lamplighting Time 539Old Hydraulic Diggings 540Hearth on Old Cabin-Site 540Builder of Deserted Hearth 540Aftermath of Mining Days 540River-Canyon 541

Childhood 542

School-Room Pastime 542Boys Telling Bawdy Tales 542Fight on the Play-Ground 542Water-Fight 542Boys Rob a Yellow-Hammer's Nest 543Nest of the Screech-Owl 543Grammar-School Vixen 543Girl of Six 543

Mortal Essences 543

Snake, Owl, Cat or Hawk 543Slaughter-House in Spring 543Cattle Salute the Psychopomp 543Slaughter-House Pasture 544Field Behind the Abatoir 544

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Plague from the Abatoir 544La Mort des amants 544Vultures Come to the Ambarvalia 544For the Dance of Death 544Berries of the Deadly Nightshade 544Water-Hemlock 545Felo-de-se of the Parasite 545

Pagans Old andNew 545Initiate of Dionysus 545Bacchic Orgy 545Abstainer 545Picture by Piero di Cosimo 545Bacchants and Bacchante 545Garden of Priapus 546Morning Star of the Mountains 546Bygone Interlude 546Prisoner in Vain 546

Epitaphs 546Braggart 546Slaughtered Cattle 546The Earth 546

Miscellaneous Haiku 547Illuminatus 547Limestone Cavern 547Maternal Prostitute 547Ocean Twilight 547Radio 547Tule-Mists 547

If Winter Remain (1948-1950) 549Hellenic Sequel 551No Stranger Dream 551On the Mount of Stone 552Only to One Returned 552Sonnet for the Psychoanalysts 552Avowal 553Tolometh 553If Winter Remain 554Almost Anything 555"That Modey Drama" 556Pour Chercher du nouveau 556Dans l'univers lointain 557In a Distant Universe 558

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High Surf: Monterey Bay 559Isaac Newton 559La Muse moderne 560The Mystical Number 560Pantheistic Dream 561Reve pantheistique 562Poemes d'amour 563Sandalwood and Onions 563The Dark Chateau 563Don Quixote on Market Street 565The Isle of Saturn 566"O Golden-Tongued Romance" 567Averoigne 568Zothique 569Le poete parle avec ses biographes 569The Poet Talks with the Biographers 570Beauty 571La Hermosura 571Las Poetas del optimismo 571The Poets of Optimism 571El Cantar de los seres libres 572Song of the Free Beings 572<;Donde duermes, Eldorado? 573Where Sleepest Thou, O Eldorado? 573Los Duenos 574Dominium in Excelsis 574Parnaso 575Parnassus 576Las Alquerias perdidas 576Lost Farmsteads 577Cantar 578Song 578Eros in the Desert 579Dice el sonador 579Says the Dreamer 580Memoriaroja 581Red Memory 581Dos Mitos y una fabula 582Two Myths and a Fable 582LaNereida 583La Isla de Circe 584The Isle of Circe 584

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Lo Ignoto 585The Unknown 585Leteo 585[Lethe] 586Anoranza 586Melancholia 587ElVendaval 587ElVendaval 588Farmyard Fugue 589Didus Ineptus 590Amithaine 591Malediction 591Shapes in the Sunset 592Sinbad, It Was Not Well to Brag 593El Eros de ebano 595Eros of Ebony 595

The Dead Will Cuckold You (1950) 597The Dead Will Cuckold You 599

The Sorcerer Departs (1951-1961) 617TheStylite ; 619Two on a Pillar 620Not Theirs the Cypress-Arch 620Alpine Climber 620Hesperian Fall 621"Not Altogether Sleep" 623Seeker 624Soliloquy in a Ebon Tower 624The Twilight of the Gods 627Qu'Importe? 628tiQue suenas, Musa? 628What Dreamest Thou, Muse? 629Que songes-tu, Muse? 629Ye Shall Return ! 630lives of the Saints 630Secret Worship 631The Song of Songs 631STYES WITH SPIRES '. 632In Time of Absence 632Nada 632Seer of the Cycles 633I Shall Not Gready Grieve 633Geometries 634

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Alchemy 635Sacraments 635Delay 636Verity 636La Isla del naufrago 636Isle of the Shipwrecked 637Thebaid 637Saturnian Cinema 638Dedication: To Carol 639The Centaur 639Lawn-Mower 640Tired Gardener 640

. High Surf 641H. P. L 641Cycles 642

Fragments and Untided Poems 643Al borde del Leteo 645Ballad of a Lost Soul 645The Brook 646Demogorgon 647Despondency 648The Flight of the Seraphim 648For Iris 648Haunting 649The Milky Way 649Night 650The Night Wind 650No-Man's-Land 651Ode on Matter... 651The Regained Past 652The Saturnienne 653Sonnets of the Desert 653The Temptation 654To a Comet 654To Iris 655To Iris 655To the Sun 656The Vampire Night 656[miscellaneous fragments] 656Broceliande 671[miscellaneous fragments] 671Twilight Pilgrimage 672

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[miscellaneous fragments] 673limericks 675Ripe Mulberries 675From "Ode to Antares" 677From "The Song of Xeethra".... 677From "Song of the Galley Slaves" 678From "Song of King Hoaraph's Bowmen" 678From "Ludar's Litany to Thasaidon" 678From "Ludar's Litany to Thasaidon" 679

Appendix..... ; 681Prospective Tables of Contents 681

The Jasmine Girdle 681The Jasmine Girdle and Other Poems..... 682Incantations 683

The Abalone Song 685Translations 686

Le Desir d'Aimer 686The Desire of Loving 687[Sandalwood] 688Voices 688

Notes 691Juvenilia 785Fragments and Untitled Poems 792Appendix 799

Index of Tides 801Index of First lines 823