The Tears of Lilith

Read "The Tears of Lilith" at The Eldritch Dark:

http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/poetry/565/the-tears-of-lilith

This short poem from Clark Ashton Smith (CAS) makes interesting use of repeated words to shift the emphasis.  Initially, the word "mouth" is repeated making the reader think of a kiss, but then the word "tears" is repeated, with the transition occurring right at the beginning of the middle stanza:


Thy mouth I love: but most of all
It is thy tears that I desire—


It's a subtle technique to re-focus the poem on its true subject, but it gets the job done!