The Star-Treader and other poems Quotes

“Lo! I am Beauty's constant thrall, Must ever on her voice await, And follow through the maze of Fate Her luring, strange and mystical.”
― Clark Ashton Smith, The Star-Treader and other poems

“Behind each thing a shadow lies;
Beauty hath e'er its cost:
Within the moonlight-flooded skies
How many stars are lost!”
― Clark Ashton Smith, The Star-Treader and Other Poems