Lovecraftiana: Virgil Finlay (a poem) - part 1

To Mr. Finlay, upon His Drawing for Mr. Bloch's Tale, "The Faceless God" [1]

In dim abysses [2] pulse the shapes of night,
Hungry and [3] hideous, with strange mitres crown'd;
Black pinions beating in fantastic flight
From orb to orb thro' sunless voids [4] profound. [5]

None dares to name the cosmos whence they course,
Or guess the look on each amorphous face,
Or speak the words that with resistless force
Would draw them from the hells of outer space. [6]

Yet here upon a page our frighten'd glance
Finds monstrous forms no human eye should see;
Hints of those blasphemies whose countenance
Spreads death and [3] madness thro' infinity.

What limner he who braves black gulfs alone
And lives to make their alien horrors known?

1 Text taken from The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H P Lovecraft, Joshi, Night Shade Books, 2001, p.80
2 abyss is a favorite and recurring Lovecraft word
3 Lovecraft, as you can see, always use "+" or "&"
4 Joshi has "void" while the text has "voids".
5 I have added a break here that is not original. See 6
6 There is a natural gap between these stanzas, but there is also a natural flow that Joshi does not use, not Lovecraft. That is three stanzas of 4 (the verse is apparently pentameter) and a flourish of two lines to end with a question.