| Title | : | The Star-Treader and Other Poems |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Clark Ashton Smith |
| Release | : | 2014-05-18 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Poetry, Books, Fiction & Literature |
| Size | : | 341896 |
| This Rome, that was the toil of many men, The consummation of laborious years— Fulfilment's crown to visions of the dead, And image of the wide desire of kings— Is made my darkling dream's effulgency, Fuel of vision, brief embodiment Of wandering will, and wastage of the strong Fierce ecstacy of one tremendous hour, When ages piled on ages were a flame To all the years behind, and years to be. Yet any sunset were as much as this, Save for the music forced by hands of fire From out the hard strait silences which bind Dull Matter's tongueless mouth—a music pierced With the tense voice of Life, more quick to cry Its agony—and save that I believed The radiance redder for the blood of men. Destruction hastens and intensifies The process that is Beauty, manifests Ranges of form unknown before, and gives Motion and voice and hue where otherwise Bleak inexpressiveness had leveled all. |
