Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A KISS, by THOMAS HARDY



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First Line: By a wall the stranger now calls his
Last Line: In the infinite.
Subject(s): Kisses


BY a wall the stranger now calls his,
Was born of old a particular kiss,
Without forethought in its genesis;
Which in a trice took wing on the air.
And where that spot is nothing shows:
There ivy calmly grows,
And no one knows
What a birth was there!

That kiss is gone where none can tell -
Not even those who felt its spell:
It cannot have died; that know we well.
Somewhere it pursues its flight,
One of a long procession of sounds
Travelling aethereal rounds
Far from earth's bounds
In the infinite.





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