Unsavoury as it is below, there is cheerfulness, and comfort, and hard, honest work above.(“In The Court Of The Dragon”)

Let the red dawn surmise What we shall do, When this blue starlight dies And all is through.”(The Yellow Sign)

This is the thing that troubles me, for I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men’s thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into...

The people faded away, the arches, the vaulted roof vanished. I raised my seared eyes to the fathomless glare; and I saw the black stars hanging in the heavens: and the wet winds from the...

A spring sun was shining on the rue St. Honore, as I ran down the church steps. On one corner stood a barrow full of yellow jonquils, pale violets from the Riviera, dark Russian violets,...

As it recurred again and again, it set me thinking of what my architect’s books say about the custom in early times to consecrate the choir as soon as it was built, and that the...

The Clown turned his powdered face to the mirror.”If to be fair is to be beautiful,” he said, “who can compare with me in my white mask?””Who can compare with him in his white mask?”...