Similitudes

This poem from Clark Ashton Smith (CAS), unpublished is his lifetime, is not available on The Eldritch Dark, so here's the complete text:


My love for you is tender
As flowers after snow
Amid a mountain fir-wood
Where mountain waters flow.
My love for you is tender
As flowers after snow.

My love for you is deeper
Than a mountain tarn at noon,
That lulls the ledge-flung torrents
To frame the shadowy moon.
My love for you is deeper
Than a mountain tarn at noon.

My love for you is lasting
As pines amid the spring,
As pines that bore no transient
Autumnal blazoning.
My love for you is lasting
As pines amid the spring.


While this is a slight work, the repeated lines in each stanza do lend a propulsive rhythm to the reading, enhanced by the short iambic trimeter.