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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IL BACIO, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kiss! Hollyhock in love's luxuriant close! Last Line: Red lips of one I know, a light and smile! Subject(s): Kisses | |||
KISS! Hollyhock in Love's luxuriant close! Brisk music played on pearly little keys, In tempo with the witching melodies Love in the ardent heart repeating goes. Sonorous, graceful Kiss, hail! Kiss divine! Unequalled boon, unutterable bliss! Man, bent o'er thine enthralling chalice, Kiss, Grows drunken with a rapture only thine! Thou comfortest as music does, and wine, And grief dies smothered in thy purple fold. Let one greater than I, Kiss, and more bold, Rear thee a classic, monumental line. Humble Parisian bard, this infantile Bouquet of rhymes I tender half in fear .... Be gracious, and in guerdon, on the dear Red lips of One I know, a light and smile! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHAMBER MUSIC: 31 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 34 by JAMES JOYCE KISSING AGAIN by DORIANNE LAUX PROMISES, PROMISES by PAUL MULDOON THE CITY OF THE OLESHA FRUIT by NORMAN DUBIE PENDULUM by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A FORGOTTEN TUNE by PAUL VERLAINE |
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