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Cleopatra

Clark Ashton Smith

First published December 1922
Type Poem

The first line is "Thy beauty is the warmth and languor of an orient autumn," except in its first appearance in Ebony and Crystal where it is "Thy beauty is the warmth and languor and passion of a tropic autumn,"

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
December 1922 Cover Ebony and Crystal: Poems in Verse and Prose Auburn Journal Collection 42
November 1971 Cover Selected Poems Arkham House Collection 100
September 2002 Cover The Last Oblivion: Best Fantastic Poems of Clark Ashton Smith Hippocampus Press Collection 132
October 2016 Ebony and Crystal: Poems in Verse and Prose Project Gutenberg Collection |42