'The Last Night' by Clark Ashton Smith

Описание: Another eerily evocative sonnet from Clark Ashton Smith. Best known for his pulp fantasy, like Lovecraft and Howard, Smith was also a skilled poet. 'The Last Night' is taken from his first poetry collection, 'The Star-Treader', published in 1912.

I hope you enjoy my rendition of this terrific sonnet. I am always striving to improve, and feedback, comments and likes are all most welcome. Please do let me know if you would like to hear more, and suggestions for stories and poems to read are invited.

Credits:
'The Last Night' (1912) by Clark Ashton Smith
'Mountain Landscape' (1877) by Gustave Doré

Text and images are in the Public Domain.

If you enjoy quality writing in a traditional style, why not check out one of my own stories?
'The Knight Who Would Not Kneel'
A young warrior becomes unwillingly sworn to the service of a dying king desperate to defend his realm from monsters. The two forge a friendship in the fires of adversity, which leads both to a strange and forbidding destiny.

Torn from the pages of 'Man of Swords', the dime novel edition of 'The Knight Who Would Not Kneel' is one of the thrilling adventures of the wandering hero Rhoye of Khetaine. Available now as an ebook from Amazon worldwide, or as part of the story collection 'Man of Swords', which is available in hardcover, paperback and ebook and is free to read on Kindle Unlimited. Links to my Amazon Author Page can be found in the About section on the channel home page.

About me:
'Robert Victor Mills is a writer from the Black Country of the English Midlands. A lifelong enthusiast of literature and of fantasy in particular, he draws inspiration from the works and worlds of Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Arthurian Romances, amongst others.

‘Man of Swords’, his first published work released in 2022, charted the earliest adventures of the hero Rhoye of Khetaine. This series will continue with the forthcoming direct sequel, ‘Knight of Swords’. ‘The Girl with the Fire in her Hair’ continues the adventures of Rhoye of Khetaine and Astropho of Otalle, following the novella ‘The Isle of the Shrine of the Sick’ning Scarab’, first published in 2023.'

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