The Last Oblivion: Best Fantastic Poems of Clark Ashton Smith

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

Hippocampus Press, (Sep 2002)

ISBN 0-9673215-5-7: Pb: $15.00.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• A Note on the Text
• Acknowledgments
• The Hashish Eater -or- the Apocalypse of Evil

I. The Star Treader

• The Star-Treader
• Ode to the Abyss
• Nirvana
• The Song of A Comet
• Lament of the Stars
• In Saturn
• Triple Aspect
• The Abyss Triumphant
• The Motes
• Desire of Vastness
• Shadows
• A Dream of the Abyss
• After Armageddon
• The Ancient Quest
• A Dream of Oblivion
• Ode to Light
• Ode to Matter

II. Medusa and Other Horrors

• Nero
• Medusa
• Averted Malefice
• The Medusa of the Skies
• Saturn
• In Lemuria
• Satan Unrepentant
• The Ghoul And the Seraph
• The Medusa of Despair
• A Vision of Lucifer
• The Witch in the Graveyard
• The Flight of Azrael
• The Mummy
• Minatory
• To the Chimera
• The Whisper of the Worm
• The Envoys
• Nyctalops
• Jungle Twilight
• Necromancy
• The Witch with Eyes of Amber
• Cambion
• The Saturnienne
• Chance
• Revenant
• Song of the Necromancer
• Pour Chercher Du Nouveau
• Witch Dance
• Not Theirs the Cypress-Arch

III. The Eldritch Dark

• A Song from Hell
• The Titans in Tartarus
• The Twilight Woods
• Lethe (I)
• Atlantis
• The Eldritch Dark
• White Death
• A Dead City
• The Cloud-Islands
• The City of the Titans
• The City of Destruction
• Beyond the Great Wall
• Solution
• Rosa Mystica
• Symbols
• The City in the Desert
• The Melancholy Pool
• Twilight on the Snow
• The Land of Evil Stars
• Memnon At Midnight
• The Kingdom of Shadows
• Moon-Dawn
• Outlanders
• Warning
• The Nightmare Tarn
• The Prophet Speaks
• The Outer Land
• In Thessaly
• Le Miroir Des Blanches Fleurs
• The Moonlight Desert
• Ougabalys
• Desert Dweller
• Amithaine
• The Dark Chateau
• Averoigne
• Zothique

IV. Said the Dreamer

• The Castle of Dreams
• The Dream-God's Realm
• Imagination
• The Last Night
• Shadow of Nightmare
• A Song of Dreams
• The Dream-Bridge
• Said the Dreamer
• Dolor of Dreams
• Luna Aeternalis
• Echo of Memnon
• Nightmare
• The Last Goddess
• Love Malevolent
• The Wingless Archangels
• Enchanted Mirrors
• Selenique
• Maya
• Fantaisie d'antan
• In Slumber

V. The Refuge of Beauty

• The Power of Eld
• Strangeness
• The Nereid
• Exotique
• Transcendence
• The Tears of Lilith
• Cleopatra
• The Refuge of Beauty
• Sandalwood
• The Last Oblivion
• Alienage
• Adventure
• Interrogation
• Canticle
• To Antares
• Connaissance
• Exorcism
• Lamia
• Farewell to Eros
• Some Blind Eidolon
• Bacchante
• Resurrection
• The Sorceror to His Love
• The Hill of Dionysus
• Midnight Beach
• Omniety

VI. To the Darkness

• Ode on Imagination
• Retrospect And Forecast
• To the Darkness
• A Dream of Beauty
• The Pursuer
• In the Desert
• The Nameless Wraith
• To the Daemon of Sublimity
• Desolation
• Inferno
• Dissonance
• Remembered Light
• The Incubus of Time
• Laus Mortis
• The Hope of the infinite
• Antepast
• Forgotten Sorrow
• Lunar Mystery
• The Funeral Urn
• Mors
• September
• Ennui (Thou)

VII. The Sorceror Departs

• To Omar Khayyam
• To Nora May French (I)
• On Re-Reading Baudelaire
• To George Sterling: A Valediction
• To Howard Phillips Lovecraft
• H.P.L.
• Soliloquy in An Ebon tower
• Cycles
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index of Titles
• Index of First Lines

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