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E-kniha H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Poetry
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H. P. Lovecraft[20.8.1890-15.3.1937] Howard Phillips Lovecraft byl americký spisovatel, esejista, básník, amatérský žurnalista, a autodidakt věnující se literární tvorbě v oblasti fantasy, science fiction a především hororu, které velmi zručně kombinoval v žánru zvaném „weird fiction“. Rovněž se zabýval velmi rozsáhlým amatérským studiem astronomie, chemie, geologie, historie, filosofie, psychologie, antropologie, literatury a architektury. Lovecraft se narodil roku 1890 v Providence na Rhode...
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The Outpost
Written: 26th November 1929
First Published in Bacon’s Essays, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 1930), Page 7
When evening cools the yellow stream,
And shadows stalk the jungle’s ways,
Zimbabwe’s palace flares ablaze
For a great King who fears to dream.
For he alone of all mankind
Waded the swamp that serpents shun;
And struggling toward the setting sun,
Came on the veldt that lies behind.
No other eyes had vented there
Since eyes were lent for human sight—
But there, as sunset turned to night,
He found the Elder Secret’s lair.
Strange turrets rose beyond the plain,
And walls and bastions spread around
The distant domes that fouled the ground
Like leprous fungi after rain.
A grudging moon writhed up to shine
Past leagues where life can have no home;
And paling far-off tower and dome,
Shewed each unwindowed and malign.
Then he who in his boyhood ran
Through vine-hung ruins free of fear,
Trembled at what he saw—for here
Was no dead, ruined seat of man.
Inhuman shapes, half-seen, half-guessed,
Half solid and half ether-spawned,
Seethed down from starless voids that yawned
In heav’n, to these blank walls of pest…
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