The Shadow-Eater

These Poems Are Dedicated to
CARLO DE FORNARO
Who Was the First to Understand, Appreciate and
Sympathize with Them

OF THIS FIRST EDITION OF SIX-HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES OF “THE SHADOW-EATER” BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES ONE-HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES HAVE BEEN PRINTED ON TUSCANY HAND MADE PAPER AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

THE SHADOW-EATER

BY

Benjamin De Casseres

NEW YORK
ALBERT AND CHARLES BONI
1915

Copyright, 1915
By ALBERT & CHARLES BONI

 

 

 

CONTENTS

The Protagonist	7
Tantara! Tantaro!	8
The Tongueless One	9
The Shrine in the Mist	10
My Comic Perspective	12
The Peeper	14
The Circle-That-Looks-Like-a-Line	15
My Divine Hate	18
The Rotted Ideal	20
The Vision Malefic	21
Dying	22
The Dead Who Live	23
Exvolved	24
The God of Negation	25
Godward	26
Beyond Sense	27
The Cynic of Nazareth	28
De Profundis	29
On a Marriage	30
The Syncopated Spinner	31
Love and Sleep	32
The Watcher	33
Face to Face	34
My Shadows	35
The Vigil	36
The Closed Room	37
Half-Seen	38
The Long Vigil	39
Prophetic	40
Resurrection Night	41
Bird of the Night	42
The Cleft in the Wall	43
The Truant	45
Change and an Ending	46
The Quest in the Flesh	47
In the Adytum	49
The Way Out: BIO	50
Moth-Terror	51
My Holy List	52
The Overone	53
The Ultimate	54
The Sleeper	55
The Alleys of Eld	56
Love the Destroyer	57
Rejection	58
The Spear of the Great Spurning	59

 

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