Beauty has many mirrors to ensphere
Her presence or her passing: orbs of dew;
Far-flooding Amazons with margents new;
The narrowing circlet of the desert mere;
Deep wells on which the ruby planets rear;
Blades from Damascus; gems of Xanadu;
And pools that hold a falcon-hovered blue
Or eves whereon the ghostly owlets veer.
Often, upon the solitary sea,
She lieth, ere the wind shall gather breath-
One with the reflex of infinity;
In oriels filled with some conflagrant sky
Her vision dwells, or in the ring-dove's eye,
Or the black crystal of the eyes of Death.
The Mirrors Of Beauty
Clark Ashton Smith
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Poem topics: beauty, breath, death, sea, sky, wind, blue, deep, dove, black, hold, vision, desert, crystal, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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