But Grant, O Venus

Read "But Grant, O Venus" at The Eldritch Dark:

http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/poetry/69/but-grant%2C-o-venus

This is a minor love poem from Clark Ashton Smith (CAS).  It's more conventional that most of his work in a similar vein, in that the darker elements are treated with remove ("The doom that tolling bells of thought repeat"), rather than being used as essential building blocks.