Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WHITE DEATH, by CLARK ASHTON SMITH


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First Line: Methought the world was bound with final frost
Last Line: All darkness rendered shelterless and pale.
Subject(s): Death; Frost; Sun; Dead, The


Methought the world was bound with final frost:
The sun, made hueless as with fear and awe,
Illumined yet the lands it could not thaw.
Then on my road, with instant evening crost,
Death stood, and in its dusky veils enwound,
Mine eyes forgot the light, until I came
Where poured the inseparate, unshadowed flame
Of phantom suns in seif-irradiance drowned.
Death lay revealed in all its haggardness --
Immitigable wastes horizonless;
Profundities that held nor bar nor veil;
All hues wherewith the suns and worlds were dyed
In light invariable nullified;
All darkness rendered shelterless and pale.





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