Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE RIVALS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES


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First Line: Pleasure is not the one I love
Last Line: By pleasure, from her finger-tips.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Pleasure


Pleasure is not the one I love:
Her laughter in the market-place
Makes every fool her echo there;
And from her finger-tips she throws
Wild kisses in the open air.

Give me that little miser, Joy,
Who hoards at home her quiet charms;
And offers with her two soft lips
A warmer kiss than any thrown
By Pleasure, from her finger-tips.





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