Smith’s first collection, published in 1912, gathers ornate, star-haunted poems of Nero watching Rome burn, a chant to Sirius, the spirit who treads the stars, Medusa, the mad wind and the cloud-islands of sunset. Its imagery of vast space, ruin and oblivion already shows the visionary manner of his later weird fiction.
A young poet’s debut that later made him a natural fit among the Weird Tales writers, for readers of cosmic and fantastic verse. Download the free EPUB.