PAN-imbued Tempe wood, Pretty player's sporting-place; Tempe wood's Solitude's Everywhere a courting-place. Kiss me, sweet Gipsy fleet, Though a kissed maid hath her red; Kisses grow -- Trust me so -- Faster than they're gathered! I will flute a tune On the pipes of ivory; All long noon Piping of a melody; A merry, merry, merry, merry, Merry, merry melody. Dance, ho! foot it so! Feat fleets the melody! Let the wise Say, youth dies; -- 'Tis for pleasure's mending, Sweet! Kisses are Costlier far, That they have an ending, Sweet! Half a kiss's Dainty bliss is From the day of kiss-no-more; When we shall, Roseal Lass, do this and this no more! And we pipe a tune On the pipes of ivory; All long noon Fluting of a melody: -- A merry, merry, merry, merry, Merry, merry melody. Dance, ho! trip it so! Feat fleets the melody! My love must Be to trust, While you safely fold me close: Yours will smile A kissing-while, For the hours I hold you close. Maiden gold! Clipping bold Here the truest mintage is: Lips will bear But, I swear, In the press their vintages! I will flute a tune On the pipes of ivory; All long noon Piping of a melody: -- A merry, merry, merry, merry, Merry, merry melody. Dance, ho! foot it so! Feat fleets the melody! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A LOVE SONG by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR IDYLLS OF THE KING: THE MARRIAGE OF GERAINT by ALFRED TENNYSON ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 25. THE VIRGIN by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH THE COWBOY'S DANCE SONG by JAMES BARTON ADAMS EPITAPH ON FRANCIS CHARTRES by JOHN ARBUTHNOT OBSERVATIONS ON A FEW VERSES OF HORACE by JOHN BYROM DOVER TO MUNICH by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. AS THE GREEKS DREAMED by EDWARD CARPENTER DEATH-BED REFLECTIONS OF MICHAEL-ANGELO by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE |