Recompense

Read "Recompense" at The Eldritch Dark: 

http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/poetry/459/recompense

This short poem from Clark Ashton Smith (CAS) hits a more positive note than is typical for his work, by declaring the power of love to compensate for "all the crownless, ruined years."

I notice how CAS ends the first and last lines of each stanza with the same word; an unusual technique that seems to work well in this short poem, but might well become distracting in a longer work.