title: Collected Poems
author: H.P. Lovecraft
description: Hardback book (134 pages) titled Collected Poems H.P.Lovecraft. Illustrations by Frank Utpatel. Published in a limited edition of 2000 copies (not numbered) by Arkham House in 1963. Bookseller since 1995 (ULG2-L-middle) rareviewbooks
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  H. P. LOVECRAFT
  
  
  COLLECTION
  
  
  
  
  
  THE QUEST OF IRANON
  
  
  Into the granite city of Teloth wandered the youth, vine-crowned, his yellow
  hair glistening with myrrh and his purple robe torn with briers of the
  mountain Sidrak that lies across the antique bridge of stone. The men of
  Teloth are dark and stern, and dwell in square houses, and with frowns they
  asked the stranger whence he had come and what were his name and fortune. So
  the youth answered:
  
  
  
  
  
  "I am Iranon, and come from Aira, a far city that I recall only dimly but seek
  to find again. I am a singer of songs that I learned in the far city, and my
  calling is to make beauty with the things remembered of childhood. My wealth
  is in little memories and dreams, and in hopes that I sing in gardens when the
  moon is tender and the west wind stirs the lotus-buds."
  
  
  
  
  
  When the men of Teloth heard these things they whispered to one another; for
  though in the granite city there is no laughter or song, the stern men
  sometimes look to the