Song

Read "Song" at The Eldritch Dark:

http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/poetry/518/song-%28i%29

This short poem from Clark Ashton Smith (CAS) has some interesting parallel phrases between the first and second stanzas.  In the first stanza, we have:

• my weariness
• My bitter dreams

In the second stanza, the parallel phrases are:

• my weary pain
• my dreams are fain

The transition from "My bitter dreams" to "my dreams are fain" matches the positive transition in mood from the first to the second stanza, and I like the way CAS subtly captures that transition with small but significant shifts in diction.