61. Poetry and the Gods
62. The Statement of Randolph Carter
63. The Rats in the Walls
64. The Horror at Red Hook
65. A Reminiscence Of Dr. Samuel Johnson
66. The Doom That Came to Sarnath
67. Till A the Seas
68. The Shadow Out of Time
69. The Shunned House
70. The Silver Key
Poetry and the Gods
by H. P. Lovecraft and Anna Helen Crofts
Written 1920
Published September 1920 in The United Amateur, Vol. 20, No. 1, p. 1-4.
A damp gloomy evening in April it was, just after the close of the Great
War, when Marcia found herself alone with strange thoughts and wishes,
unheard-of yearnings which floated out of the spacious twentieth-century
drawing room, up the deeps of the air, and eastward to olive groves in
distant Arcady which she had seen only in her dreams. She had entered the
room in abstraction, turned off the glaring chandeliers, and now reclined
on a soft divan by a solitary lamp which shed over the reading table a
green glow as soothing as moonlight when it issued through the foliage
about an antique shrine.
Attired simply, in a low-cut black evening dress, she appeared outwardly a
typical product of modern civilization; but tonight she felt the
immeasurable gulf that separated her soul from all her prosaic
surroundings. Was it because of the strange home in which she lived, that
abode of coldness where relations were always strained and the inmates
scarcely more than strangers? Was it that, or was it some greater and less
explicable misplacement in time and space, whereby she had been born too
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