No more of gold and marble, nor of snow
And sunlight and vemilion, would I make
My vision and my symbols, nor would take
The auroral flame of some prismatic floe.
Nor iris of the frail and lunar bow,
Flung on the shafted waterfalls that wake
The night's blue slumber in a shadowy lake.
To body forth my fantasies, and show
Communicable mystery, I would find,
In adamantine darkness of the earth,
Metals of any sun; and bring
Black azures of the nether sea to birth-
Or fetch the secret, splendid leaves, and blind
Blue lilies of an Atlantean spring.
Symbols
Clark Ashton Smith
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Poem topics: birth, night, sea, snow, spring, sun, earth, bring, mystery, flame, gold, blind, secret, black, vision, body, sunlight, slumber, blue, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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