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Critical Analysis of Famous Poems by Clark Ashton Smith

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  • 'All Is Dross That Is Not Helena'
  • 'No More The Pine'
  • 'Not Altogether Sleep'
  • 'That Last Infirmity'
  • A Catch
  • A Dead City
  • A Dream Of Beauty
  • A Dream Of Oblivion
  • A Dream Of The Abyss
  • A Fable
  • A Fragment
  • A Hunter Meets The Martichoras
  • A Live-Oak Leaf
  • A Madrigal
  • A Meeting
  • A Phantasy Of Twilight
  • A Prayer
  • A Precept
  • A Psalm To The Best Beloved
  • A Sierran Sunrise
  • A Song From Hell
  • A Song Of Dreams
  • A Sunset (As)
  • A Sunset (Far)
  • A Valediction
  • A Vision Of Lucifer
  • Abandoned Plum-Orchard
  • Adjuration
  • Adventure
  • After Armageddon
  • Aftermath Of Mining Days
  • Afterwards
  • Alexandrines
  • Alienage
  • Almost Anything
  • Alternative
  • Amithaine
  • Amor
  • Amor Aeternalis
  • Amor Autumnalis
  • Amor Hesternalis
  • An Oriental Song
  • Anodyne Of Autumn
  • Antepast
  • Anteros
  • Apologia
  • Apostrophe
  • Arabesque
  • Artemis
  • Ashes Of Sunset
  • At Sunrise
  • Atlantis
  • Attar Of The Past
  • August
  • Autumn Orchards
  • Autumn's Pall
  • Autumnal
  • Ave Atque Vale
  • Averoigne
  • Averted Malefice
  • Avowal
  • Bacchante
  • Basin In Boulder
  • Beauty Implacable
  • Bed Of Mint
  • Bedouin Song
  • Before Dawn
  • Before Sunrise
  • Belated Love
  • Benares
  • Berries Of The Deadly Nightshade
  • Beyond The Door
  • Beyond The Great Wall
  • Bird Of Long Ago
  • Bond
  • Borderland
  • Borderland
  • Boys Rob A Yellow-Hammer's Nest
  • Boys Telling Bawdy Tales
  • Brumal
  • Builder Of Deserted Hearth
  • But Grant, O Venus
  • Calendar
  • Calenture
  • Cambion
  • Canticle
  • Cats In Winter Sunlight
  • Cattle Salute The Psychopomp
  • Chainless Captive
  • Chance
  • Change
  • Change
  • Chant Of Autumn
  • Chant To Sirius
  • Classic Reminiscence
  • Cleopatra
  • Cloudland
  • Coldness
  • Connaissance
  • Consolation
  • Contradiction
  • Copan
  • Copyist
  • Crepuscule
  • Crows In Spring
  • Cumuli
  • Cycles
  • Dancer
  • De Profundis
  • Dead Love
  • Death
  • Decadence
  • December
  • Declining Moon
  • Dedication | To Carol
  • Departure
  • Desert Dweller
  • Desire Of Vastness
  • Desolation
  • Dialogue
  • Didus Ineptus
  • Disillusionment
  • Dissidence
  • Dissonance
  • Do You Forget, Enchantress?
  • Dolor Of Dreams
  • Dominion
  • Dominium In Excelsis
  • Don Juan Sings
  • Don Quixote On Market Street
  • Dream Mystery
  • Duality
  • Echo Of Memnon
  • Ecstasy
  • Eidolon
  • Enchanted Mirrors
  • Enigma
  • Ennui (Thou)
  • Epitaph For An Astronomer
  • Epitaph For The Earth
  • Erato
  • Eros Of Ebony
  • Estrangement
  • Even In Slumber
  • Exorcism
  • Exotique
  • Fairy-Lanterns
  • Fallen Grape-Leaf
  • Fantaisie D'Antan
  • Farewell To Eros
  • Fawn-Lilies
  • Feast Of St. Anthony
  • February
  • Felo-De-Se Of The Parasite
  • Fence And Wall
  • Field Behind The Abatoir
  • Finis
  • Fire Of Snow
  • Flamingoes
  • Flight Of The Yellow-Hammer
  • Flora
  • Foggy Night
  • For An Antique Lyre
  • For The Dance Of Death
  • Forgetfulness
  • Forgotten Sorrow
  • Fragment
  • Free Beings' Song
  • From Arcady
  • Future Meeting
  • Future Pastoral
  • Garden Of Priapus
  • Geese In The Spring Night
  • Girl Of Six
  • Give Me Your Lips
  • Goats And Manzanita-Boughs
  • Gopher-Hole In Orchard
  • Grammar-School Vixen
  • Grant Avenue
  • Grecian Yesterday
  • Growth Of Lichen
  • H.P.L.
  • Harmony
  • Harvest Evening
  • Haunting
  • Hearth On Old Cabin-Site
  • Hellenic Sequel
  • Hesperian Fall
  • High Mountain Juniper
  • High Surf
  • High Surf : Monterey Bay
  • Humors Of Love
  • If Winter Remain
  • Illumination
  • Illusion
  • Image
  • Imagination
  • Immortelle
  • Impression
  • Improbable Dream
  • In Lemuria
  • In November
  • In Saturn
  • In Slumber
  • In The Desert
  • In The Ultimate Valleys
  • In The Wind
  • In Thessaly
  • Incognita
  • Indian Acorn-Mortar
  • Indian Summer
  • Ineffability
  • Inferno
  • Inheritance
  • Interim
  • Interrogation
  • January Willow
  • Jungle Twilight
  • L'Amour Supreme
  • L'Espoir Du Néant
  • L'Irreparable
  • La Forteresse
  • La Mare
  • La Mort Des Amants
  • Lament For Vixeela
  • Lament Of The Stars
  • Lamia
  • Late November Evening
  • Late Pear-Pruner
  • Laus Mortis
  • Lawn-Mower
  • Le Miroir Des Blanches Fleurs
  • Lemurienne
  • Les Marées
  • Lethe (From)
  • Lethe (I)
  • Lichens
  • Lines On A Picture
  • Loss
  • Love And Death
  • Love In Dreams
  • Love Is Not Yours, Love Is Not Mine
  • Love Malevolent
  • Luna Aeternalis
  • Lunar Mystery
  • Madrigal Of Evanescence
  • Madrigal Of Memory
  • Malediction
  • Maya
  • Medusa
  • Memnon At Midnight
  • Memoria Roja
  • Memorial
  • Metaphor
  • Midnight Beach
  • Minatory
  • Mirage
  • Mirrors
  • Mithridates
  • Moly
  • Moon-Dawn
  • Moonlight (Ambitious)
  • Morning On An Eastern Sea
  • Mountain Trail
  • Mummy Of The Flower
  • Mushroom-Gatherers
  • Mystery
  • Nada
  • Necromancy
  • Nero
  • Nevermore
  • Night (The)
  • Night (Twilight)
  • Night Of Miletus
  • Nightfall
  • Nightmare
  • Nightmare Of The Lilliputian
  • Nirvana
  • No Stranger Dream
  • Nocturnal Pines
  • Nocturne
  • Not Theirs The Cypress-Arch
  • November
  • November Twilight
  • Nuns Walking In The Orchard
  • Nyctalops
  • O Golden-Tongued Romance
  • October
  • Ode (O)
  • Ode (Your)
  • Ode On Imagination
  • Ode To Light
  • Ode To Matter
  • Ode To Music
  • Ode To The Abyss
  • Odysseus In Eternity
  • Old Hydraulic Diggings
  • Old Limestone Kiln
  • Omniety
  • On A Chinese Vase
  • On Re-Reading Baudelaire
  • On The Canyon-Side
  • On The Mount Of Stone
  • One Evening
  • Only To One Returned
  • Ougabalys
  • Outlanders
  • Paean
  • Palms
  • Paphnutius
  • Parnassus À La Mode
  • Passing Of An Elder God
  • Perseus And Medusa
  • Phallus Impudica
  • Philtre
  • Pine Needles
  • Plague From The Abatoir
  • Plum-Flowers
  • Poet In A Barroom
  • Poets
  • Poets In Hades
  • Pool At Lobos
  • Poplars
  • Postlude
  • Pour Chercher Du Nouveau
  • Prisoner In Vain
  • Psalm (From - Ebony And Crystal)
  • Psalm To The Desert
  • Query
  • Quest
  • Quiddity
  • Reclamation
  • Recompense
  • Refuge
  • Reigning Empress
  • Remembered Light
  • Remembrance
  • Requiescat
  • Requiescat In Pace (M.L.M.)
  • Resurrection
  • Retrospect And Forecast
  • Rêve Parisian
  • Revenant
  • Reverie In August
  • Ripe Mulberries
  • River-Canyon
  • Rosa Mystica
  • Rubaiyat Of Saiyed
  • Said The Dreamer
  • Sandalwood
  • Satan Unrepentant
  • Satiety (Dear)
  • Saturn
  • Saturnian Cinema
  • School-Room Pastime
  • Sea Cycle
  • Sea-Memory
  • Seeker
  • Seer Of The Cycles
  • Selenique
  • Semblance
  • September
  • Sepulture
  • Sestet
  • Shadow Of Nightmare
  • Shadows
  • Shapes In The Sunset
  • Shipwrecked's Island
  • Silent Hour
  • Sinbad, It Was Not Well To Brag
  • Slaughter-House In Spring
  • Slaughter-House Pasture
  • Snake, Owl, Cat Or Hawk
  • Snowfall On Acacia
  • Soliloquy In An Ebon Tower
  • Solution
  • Some Blind Eidolon
  • Someone
  • Somnus
  • Song (I)
  • Song (Vagrant)
  • Song At Evenfall
  • Song Of Sappho's Arabian Daughter
  • Song Of The Necromancer
  • Song To Oblivion
  • Sonnet (Empress)
  • Sonnet (Green)
  • Sonnet (How)
  • Sonnet For The Psychoanalysts
  • Souvenance
  • Spectral Life
  • Sphinx And Medusa
  • Spring Nunnery
  • Storm's End
  • Stormy Afterglow
  • Strange Girl
  • Strangeness
  • Sufficiency
  • Suggestion
  • Sunset Over Farm-Land
  • Supplication
  • Surrealist Sonnet
  • Symbols
  • Temporality
  • The Absence Of The Muse
  • The Abyss Triumphant
  • The Ancient Quest
  • The Autumn Lake
  • The Balance
  • The Barrier
  • The Blindness Of Orion
  • The Burden Of The Suns
  • The Burning-Ghauts At Benares
  • The Butterfly
  • The Call Of The Wind
  • The Castle Of Dreams
  • The Centaur
  • The Cherry-Snows
  • The Chimera
  • The City In The Desert
  • The City Of Destruction
  • The City Of The Titans
  • The City Of The Titans
  • The Cloud-Islands
  • The Crucifixion Of Eros
  • The Dark Chateau
  • The Departed City
  • The Dragon-Fly
  • The Dream-Bridge
  • The Dream-God's Realm
  • The Eldritch Dark
  • The End Of Autumn
  • The Ennuye
  • The Envoys
  • The Eternal Snows
  • The Exile
  • The Fanes Of Dawn
  • The Flight Of Azrael
  • The Fugitives
  • The Garden Of Dreams
  • The Ghost Of Theseus
  • The Ghoul And The Seraph
  • The Harbour Of The Past
  • The Harlot Of The World
  • The Hashish Eater -Or- The Apocalypse Of Evil
  • The Heron
  • The Hidden Paradise
  • The Hill Of Dionysus
  • The Hill-Top
  • The Hope Of The Infinite
  • The Horizon
  • The Horologe
  • The Incubus Of Time
  • The Infinite Quest
  • The Isle Of Saturn
  • The Kingdom Of Shadows
  • The Knoll
  • The Land Of Evil Stars
  • The Last Apricot
  • The Last Goddess
  • The Last Night
  • The Last Oblivion
  • The Limniad
  • The Love-Potion
  • The Mad Wind
  • The Masque Of Forsaken Gods
  • The Maze Of Sleep
  • The Meaning
  • The Medusa Of Despair
  • The Medusa Of The Skies
  • The Melancholy Pool
  • The Messengers
  • The Mime Of Sleep
  • The Ministers Of Law
  • The Mirrors Of Beauty
  • The Monacle
  • The Moonlight Desert
  • The Morning Pool
  • The Motes
  • The Mummy
  • The Nameless Wraith
  • The Nemesis Of Suns
  • The Nereid
  • The Nevermore-To-Be
  • The Night Forest
  • The Nightmare Tarn
  • The Noon Of The Seasons
  • The Old Water-Wheel
  • The Orchid Of Beauty
  • The Outer Land
  • The Pageant Of Music
  • The Palace Of Jewels
  • The Phoenix
  • The Poet Talks With The Biographers
  • The Potion Of Dreams
  • The Power Of Eld
  • The Price
  • The Prophet Speaks
  • The Pursuer
  • The Refuge Of Beauty
  • The Retribution
  • The Return Of Hyperion
  • The River Of Life
  • The Saturnienne
  • The Sciapod
  • The Sea-Gods
  • The Secret
  • The Snow-Blossoms
  • The Song Of A Comet
  • The Song Of Aviol
  • The Song Of Cartha
  • The Song Of The Stars
  • The Song Of The Worlds
  • The Sorceror To His Love
  • The Sorrow Of The Winds
  • The Soul Of The Sea
  • The Sparrow's Nest
  • The Sphinx Of The Infinite
  • The Star-Treader
  • The Stylite
  • The Summer Moon
  • The Suns And The Void
  • The Tartarus Of The Suns
  • The Tears Of Lilith
  • The Temptation
  • The Thralls Of Circe Climb Parnassus
  • The Throne Of Winter
  • The Titans In Tartarus
  • The Twilight Of The Gods
  • The Twilight Woods
  • The Unfinished Quest
  • The Unknown
  • The Unmerciful Mistress
  • The Unremembered
  • The Voice In The Pines
  • The Voice Of Silence
  • The Waning Moon
  • The Wind And The Moon
  • The Wind-Threnody
  • The Winds
  • The Wingless Archangels
  • The Witch In The Graveyard
  • The Witch With Eyes Of Amber
  • The World
  • The Years Restored
  • Thebaid
  • Tin Can On The Mountain-Top
  • Tired Gardener
  • To A Mariposa Lily
  • To Antares
  • To Beauty
  • To George Sterling (Deep)
  • To George Sterling (High)
  • To George Sterling (His)
  • To George Sterling (What)
  • To George Sterling: A Valediction
  • To Howard Phillips Lovecraft
  • To Howard Phillips Lovecraft
  • To Nora May French (I)
  • To Nora May French (Ii)
  • To Omar Khayyam
  • To One Absent
  • To The Beloved
  • To The Chimera
  • To The Daemon Of Sublimity
  • To The Darkness
  • To The Morning Star
  • To The Nightshade
  • To The Sun
  • To Whom It May Concern
  • Tolometh
  • Touch
  • Town Lights
  • Transcendence
  • Triple Aspect
  • Trope
  • Tryst At Lobos
  • Twilight On The Snow
  • Twilight Song
  • Two Myths And A Fable
  • Un Paysage Paîen
  • Une Vie Spectrale
  • Unicorn
  • Union
  • Untold Arabian Fable
  • Vaticinations
  • Venus
  • Vultures Come To The Ambarvalia
  • Warning
  • Water-Fight
  • Water-Hemlock
  • We Shall Meet
  • Weavings
  • Where Do You Sleep, Eldorado?
  • Where?
  • White Death
  • Willow-Cutting In Autumn
  • Wind-Ripples
  • Windows At Lamplighting Time
  • Wine Of Summer
  • Wings Of Perfume
  • Winter Midnight
  • Winter Moonlight (The)
  • Witch Dance
  • Wizard's Love
  • Wizard's Love (Latter Manuscript Version)
  • Ye Shall Return
  • Yerba Buena
  • You Are Not Beautiful
  • Zothique

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