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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A KISS, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft child of love, thou balmy bliss
Last Line: A thousand full as sweet as thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John
Subject(s): Kisses
First Line: Soft child of love, thou balmy bliss
Last Line: A thousand full as sweet as thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John
Subject(s): Kisses
SOFT child of love, thou balmy bliss,
Inform me. O delicious kiss,
Why thou so suddenly art gone.
Lost in the moment thou art won?
Yet go! For wherefore should I sigh?
On Delia's lips, with raptured eye,
On Delia's blushing lips I see
A thousand full as sweet as thee.
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