Ebony and Crystal: Poems in Verse and Prose

by Clark Ashton Smith

In pools profounder for the twilight sky,

Her vision dwells, or in the poet’s eye,

Or the black crystal of the eyes of Death.

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WINTER MOONLIGHT

The silence of the silver night

Lies visibly upon the pines;

In marble flame the moon declines

Where spectral mountains dream in light.

And pale as with eternal sleep,