Monday, July 6, 2020

L'Amour Supreme

Read "L'Amour Supreme" at The Eldritch Dark:

http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/poetry/280/l%27amour-supreme

Given that Clark Ashton Smith (CAS) wrote this poem while he was in his thirties, it has a somber tone that seems derived of greater age and experience.  The second stanza is practically gothic:


Otherwise, all is dead, all is grown dark and frore;
But, by this proud flambeau, magistral and supreme,
One sees the withered woods, clear-lined on a pale heaven,
And the thunder-blasted walls of a sunken kingdom.


The phrase "thunder-blasted walls of a sunken kingdom" has a wonderful, lyrical magic that only CAS could verbalize!

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