A Precept

With words of ivory,
Of bronze, of ebony,
Of alabaster, marble, steel and gold,
The beauty of the visible is told.

But how with these express
The unseen loveliness -
Splendor and light, and harmony, and sound,
The heart hath felt, the sense hath never found?

No shining words of stone -
Shadow and cloud alone -
These shall the poet seek eternally,
Whose lines would carve the mask of Mystery.

- Clark Ashton Smith, 1922

Currently reading the pocket poetry collection "Ebony and Crystal".

https://www.bookdepository.com/Ebony-Crystal-Clark-Ashton-Smith/9780645743203

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Welcome! I am a poet and self-pub author from australia.

I have published 5 pocket editions of classic poetry works (so far!) and always carry at least one when I travel.

I also write science fiction, and have recently published a children's book with a tale in verse.

All book links here: https://linktr.ee/jbestbooks

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A young man's sailing adventure across Europe.

His house, his home, his heritage, his lands,
The laughing dames in whom he did delight,
Whose large blue eyes, fair locks, and snowy hands,
Might shake the saintship of an anchorite,
And long had fed his youthful appetite;
His goblets brimmed with every costly wine,
And all that mote to luxury invite,
Without a sigh he left to cross the brine,
And traverse Paynim shores, and pass earth's central line.

- Excerpt from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

https://www.bookdepository.com/Childe-Harolds-Pilgrimage-George-Gordon-Byron-Jonathon-Best/9780995352049

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