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REWARDS by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS

Poet Analysis

First Line: BECAUSE YOU CRIED, I KISSED YOU, AND
Last Line: SHE WOULD NOT KISS ME WHEN SHE SMILED.
Subject(s): KISSES;

Because you cried, I kissed you, and,
Ah me! how should I understand
That piteous little you were fain
To cry and to be kissed again?

Because you smiled at last, I thought
That I had found what I had sought;
But soon I found, without a doubt,
No man can find a woman out.

I kissed your tears, and did not stay
Till I had kissed them all away;
Ah, hapless me! ah, heartless child!
She would not kiss me when she smiled.



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