The Star-Treader, and other poems

by Clark Ashton Smith

THE STAR-TREADER AND OTHER POEMS

BY
CLARK ASHTON SMITH

THE STAR-TREADER AND OTHER POEMS
BY
CLARK ASHTON SMITH
A. M. ROBERTSON
STOCKTON STREET AT UNION SQUARE
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
MCMXII

COPYRIGHT 1912
BY
A. M. ROBERTSON

Philopolis Press
San Francisco

TO MY MOTHER

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CONTENTS

Page
[NERO] 1
[CHANT TO SIRIUS] 5
[THE STAR-TREADER] 6
[THE MORNING POOL] 11
[THE NIGHT FOREST] 12
[THE MAD WIND] 14
[SONG TO OBLIVION] 15
[MEDUSA] 16
[ODE TO THE ABYSS] 18
[THE SOUL OF THE SEA] 21
[THE BUTTERFLY] 22
[THE PRICE] 26
[THE MYSTIC MEANING] 27
[ODE TO MUSIC] 28
[THE LAST NIGHT] 31
[ODE ON IMAGINATION] 32
[THE WIND AND THE MOON] 35
[LAMENT OF THE STARS] 36
[THE MAZE OF SLEEP] 39
[THE WINDS] 40
[THE MASQUE OF FORSAKEN GODS] 42
[A SUNSET] 49
[THE CLOUD-ISLANDS] 50
[THE SNOW-BLOSSOMS] 52
[THE SUMMER MOON] 53
[THE RETURN OF HYPERION] 54
[LETHE] 55
[ATLANTIS] 56
[THE UNREVEALED] 57
[THE ELDRITCH DARK] 58
[THE CHERRY-SNOWS] 59
[FAIRY LANTERNS] 60
[NIRVANA] 61
[THE NEMESIS OF SUNS] 62
[WHITE DEATH] 63
[RETROSPECT AND FORECAST] 64
[SHADOW OF NIGHTMARE] 65
[THE SONG OF A COMET] 66
[THE RETRIBUTION] 69
[TO THE DARKNESS] 70
[A DREAM OF BEAUTY] 72
[THE DREAM-BRIDGE] 73
[A LIVE-OAK LEAF] 74
[PINE NEEDLES] 75
[TO THE SUN] 76
[THE FUGITIVES] 78
[AVERTED MALEFICE] 79
[THE MEDUSA OF THE SKIES] 80
[A DEAD CITY] 81
[THE SONG OF THE STARS] 82
[COPAN] 85
[A SONG OF DREAMS] 86
[THE BALANCE] 88
[SATURN] 89
[FINIS] 99