“The desert of Soom is said to lie at the world's unchartable extreme, between the lands that are little known and those that are scarcely… ”
“In a land where weirdness and mystery had strongly leagued themselves with eternal desolation, the lake was out-poured at an undiscoverable date of elder aeons,… ”
“My dreams are like a caravan that departed long ago, with tumult of intrepid banners and spears, and the clamour of bugles and brave, adventurous… ”
“Ling Yang, the poet, sits all day in his hut among the willows by the river-side, and dreams of the Lady Moy. Spring and the… ”
“{Prose version of "The City of Destruction", after Smith's unfinished poem of that name; fragment.} The city is surrounded with ramparts like a mountain-range… ”
“Scene: The catacombs of the ancient city of Oomal. A new corpse has been deposited along-side a skeleton, which, from its mouldiness and worm-picked appearance,… ”
“Raptly as one who would divine the perilous eyes of Sleep, and the dreams and mysteries which lurk therein, I sought to fathom the gulf-enclosing… ”
“O Fairest, O dearest, to what shall I liken thy days? Methinks are as precious gems, as pearls and amethysts, which, from a broken string,… ”
The Demon, the Angel, and Beauty
“Of the Demon who standeth or walketh always with me at my left hand, I asked: "Hast thou seen Beauty? Her that meseemeth was the… ”
“The desert of Soom is said to lie at the world's unchartable extreme, between the lands that are little known and those that are scarcely… ”
“In the quest of her whom I had lost, I came at length to the shores of Lethe, under the vault of an immense, empty,… ”
“In the alcove whose curtains are cloth-of-gold, and whose pillars are fluted sapphire, reclines the emperor Chan, on his couch of ebony set with opals… ”
“In a basin of porphyry, at the summit of a pillar of serpentine, the thing has existed from primeval time, in the garden of the… ”
“The child Natha lived with his father and mother in a little house not far from the verge of the great jungle. Every day he… ”
“Will you not join me in Atlantis, where we will go down through streets of blue and yellow marble to the wharves of orichalch, and… ”
“Aeons of aeons ago, in an epoch whose marvelous worlds have crumbled, and whose mighty suns are less than shadow, I dwelt in a star… ”
From the Crypts of Memory (Text taken from original manuscripts)
“Aeons of aeons ago, in an epoch whose marvellous worlds have crumbled, and whose mighty suns are less than shadow, I dwelt in a star… ”
“I returned on a winter day to the mountain stream, upon whose banks we roamed so long ago when the rich azaleas leaned above it… ”
“I know a garden of flowers-flowers lovely and marvellous and multiform as the orchids of far, exotic worlds-as the flowers of manifold petal, whose colours… ”
The Image of Bronze and the Image of Iron
“In the temple of the city of Morm, which lies between the desert and the sea, are two images of thegod Amanon,- a bronze image… ”
“Thy tears are not as mine: Thou weepest as a green fountain among palms and roses, with lightly falling drops that bedew the flowery turf.… ”
“It was a windless afternoon of April, beneath skies that were tender as the smile of love, when we went forth, you and I, to… ”
“It lies with in a land that is only seen by the sun and the moon and the horizon-questing stars. The sky-wrestled mountains, like sentries… ”
“It is a land of fruitful palms and flowering myrtles, with winds that are gentle as the sighs of woman, and pearling fountains delicious as… ”
The Litany of the Seven Kisses
“I
I kiss thy hands-thy hands. whose fingers are delicate and the pale as the petals of the white lotus.II
I kiss thy hair, which has the… ”
“I stood with my beloved in the lotus pool, when the moon was round as the great ivory breast of a Titaness, and the flowers… ”
“Ringed with a bronze horizon, which, at a point immensely remote, seems welded with the blue brilliance of a sky of steel, they oppose the… ”
The Mirror in the Hall of Ebony
“From the nethermost profound of slumber, from a gulf beyond the sun and stars that illume the Lethean shoals and the vague lands of somnolent… ”
“The world has a thousand poisons, thin or potent, honey-like or nauseous, quick or languid, corrosive and deadly, or captious and deceptive and narcotic. There… ”
“I sought the cloister of the dead, when, fallen athwart the funereal glooms of yew and cypress, the sunset wrought a phantom flush upon the… ”
“Will you not join me in Atlantis, where we will go down through streets of blue and yellow marble to the wharves of orichalch, and… ”
“Too far away is her wan and mortal face, and too remote are the snows of her lethal breast, for mine eyes to behold them… ”
“Splenetic, pale Narcissus, in the green dead depth of some rotting pool: thou seest thine image drown and re-emmerge, beneath the shifting iridescence of corruption,… ”
“{March 12, 1928}Hast thou desired to love wherein the fervor of the mountain flames of autumn is mingled with all the tenderness of half-unfolded… ”
“December 18, 1929An osprey who had sighted a plump turbot glided to the surface of the waves; and at that very same moment a… ”
“In all the lands of Illarion, from mountain-valleys rimmed with unmelting snow, to the great cliffs of sand whose reflex darkens a sleepy, tepid sea,… ”
The Peril That Lurks Among Ruins (Text taken from a later manuscript)
“"Go not too often among ruins," said the Daemon in one of his rare moods of admonitory confidence. "For there is a strangeness in the… ”
The Peril That Lurks Among Ruins (Text taken from original manuscript)
“"Go not too often among ruins", said the Demon, in one of his infrequent hours of admonitory confidence. "For there is a strangeness in the… ”
“I have dreamt of an unknown land-a land remote in ulterior time, and alien space not ascertainable; the desert of a long-completed past, upon which… ”
“I would rather look upon thy face than upon the gardens of Atlantis, in the setting of a hyacinthine sun than necromancers have summoned.I would… ”
“From her balcony of pearl, the princess Almeena, clad in a gown of irisated silk, with her long and sable locks unbound, gazes toward the… ”
“There are days when all the beauty of the world is dim and strange; when the sunlight about me seems to fall on a land… ”
“There were many shadows in the palace of Augusthes, About the silver throne that had blackened beneath the invisible passing of ages, they fell from… ”
“I saw a statue, carven I knew not of what substance, nor with what form or feature, because of the manifold draper of black which… ”
“I saw the declivous latter sunlight fall and glitter upon the sepulchre of one whose immomentous name was holden awhile from Oblivion by the deeply-trenched… ”
“Tell me many tales, O benign maleficent daemon, but tell me none that I have ever heard or have even dreamt of otherwise than obscurely… ”
“Nasiphra the philosopher had sought through many years and in many lands for the fabled touch-stone, which was said to reveal the true nature of… ”
“"Stranger, where goest thou, in the sad raiment of a pilgrim, with shattered sandals retaining the dustand mire of so many devious ways? With thy… ”
“It is a land of fruitful palms and flowering myrtles, with winds that are gentle as the sighs of women, and pearling fountains delicious as… ”
“Surely, beyond the mountains there is peace-beyond the mountains that lie so blue and still at the world's extreme. Such ancient calm, such infinite quietude… ”
“{1951} PERSONAE Smaragad, King of YorosQueen SomelisGaleor, a wandering poet and lute-player, guest of SmaragadNatanasna, a necromancerBaltea, tiring-woman to SomelisKalguth,… ”
“{September 17, 1922; fragment}
A grassy meadow, by a lily-laden stream, within sight of Alnephrom, the capitol of Poseidions. Aviol, a girl of twelve, and the… ”
^Venus^[Aphrodite] And The Priest
“SCENE: The house of a village priest, at midnight. The priest himself is revealed in prayer before the crucifix, besides a table piled with Commentaries… ”
“Sheet Music, Time 1:15. Dedicated to Roland Hayes. About 1920… ”
“Sheet music, Chorus for Womens' Voices with Piano Accompaniment… ”
“Sheet music,Sep 1915… ”
Graphic Classics: H P Lovecraft (Revised Edition - with 75 New Pages!)
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