Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO CELIA, by BEN JONSON


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First Line: Kiss me, sweet; the wary lover
Last Line: What their number is, be pined.
Subject(s): Innocence; Love


Kiss me, sweet: the wary lover
Can your favours keep, and cover,
When the common courting jay
All your bounties will betray.
Kiss again: no creature comes.
Kiss, and score up wealthy sums
On my lips, thus hardly sundered,
While you breathe. First give a hundred,
Then a thousand, then another
Hundred, then unto the tother
Add a thousand, and so more:
Till you equal with the store,
All the grass that Romney yields,
Or the sands in Chelsea fields,
Or the drops in silver Thames,
Or the stars, that gild his streams,
In the silent summer nights,
When youths ply their stol'n delights.
That the curious may not know
How to tell them as they flow,
And the envious, when they find,
What their number is, be pined.





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