One said: "I have seen, from cliffs of doom,
The seven hells flame up in flower
Like a million upas trees that tower,
Massing their realms of poisonous bloom.
I have gone down where dragons writhe,
Mating within the nadir slime;
I have caressed in some mad clime
The Gorgon's ringlets, long and lithe."
Another answered: "I have known
The undated hour of agony
When sightless terror leers and crawls
Out of mere soil and simple stone;
When horror seeps from out four walls
And trickles from the unclouded sky."
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Remembered: Clark Ashton Smith Works
RandomClark Ashton Smith was a poet, sculptor, painter, and horror and science fiction writer. Through his writing career he wrote under many pseudonyms such as Timeus Gaylord, Klarkash-Ton, Cristophe des Laurieres, and Clergio Herrero. Clark was apart...
