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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: KISSES Matches Found: 521 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "ONO MY LOVE, NOTL", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As I was a walking one morning in may Last Line: "and curse the very hour you said, no, my love, not I" Subject(s): Kisses;love;may (month) 4TH MAY MORNING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My carrier pigeon is a 'fancy' pigeon Last Line: And give a kiss to dark-locked alice. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Pigeons A BALLAD ON LADY ILCHESTER ASKING LORD ILCHESTER, HOW MANY KISSES..., by CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear betty! Come give me sweet kisses Last Line: Will always with few be content! Subject(s): Kisses A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN TO HER LOVER, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my heart breaketh with felicity Last Line: "farewell, farewell, for evermore farewell!" Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Passion; Separation; Isolation A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 6. CLAIMING A SECOND KISS BY DESERT, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Charis, guess, and do not miss Last Line: May not claim another kiss. Subject(s): Kisses A DREAM OF LOVE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Without the world was beautiful Last Line: And clinging lips confess. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Nightmares A FLASH, by JEANNETTE FOSTER Poem Text First Line: Your kiss upon my hand Last Line: Your lips against my fingers. Subject(s): Kisses A FULL EDITION, by JOSEPH LILIENTHAL Poem Text First Line: May I print a kiss on your lips?' I said Last Line: "we printed a full edition." Subject(s): Kisses; Lips; Love A FUNERAL THOUGHT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the stern genius, to whose hollow tramp Last Line: My monument sublime. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Kisses; Love; Thought; Dead, The; Burials; Thinking A GIRL'S SONGS: THE KISS, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your kiss lies on my face Last Line: I tremble even so. Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Kisses A HINT TO THE FARMERS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farmers, whose income, day by day Last Line: "the public will find railing!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Kisses; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers A JACOBITE'S FAREWELL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's nae mair lands to tyne, my dear Last Line: And ye'll see me nae mair. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jacobites; Kisses A KISS, by L. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: A kiss is not like the poems at all Last Line: "as ""accepted, with a request for more." Alternate Author Name(s): L. Subject(s): Kisses A KISS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By a wall the stranger now calls his Last Line: In the infinite. Subject(s): Kisses A KISS, by M. ELLEN HOWELL Poem Text First Line: What is a kiss? A mystery true Last Line: It is god and heaven and home—in you. Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Paradise; Male-female Relations A KISS, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A kiss? Pray tell me, what is in a kiss Last Line: "together met, knock reason ""all to smash." Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Kisses A KISS, by BERNARD FREEMAN TROTTER Poem Text First Line: She kissed me when she said goodbye Last Line: Good-bye. Subject(s): Farewell; Kisses; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Parting; First World War A KISS - BY MISTAKE, by JOEL BENTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the railway train we met Last Line: And gently kiss me—by mistake! Subject(s): Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A KISS IN THE RAIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: One stormy morn I chanced to meet Last Line: I kissed her in the rain Subject(s): Kisses A KISS IN THE RAIN, by SAMUEL MINTURN PECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One stormy morn I chanced to meet Last Line: I kissed her in the rain. Subject(s): Kisses; Women A KISSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is a kisse? Why this, as some approve Last Line: The sure sweet-sement, glue, and lime of love. Subject(s): Kisses A LIFE TERM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was false, and he was true, Last Line: Of the violet. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Kisses; Life; Murder; Prisons & Prisoners A MIRACLE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Neither in passion nor in play Last Line: Like an october violet. Subject(s): Kisses A MOTHER SHOWING THE PORTRAIT OF HER CHILD, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Living child or pictured cherub Last Line: Less than it bestows. Subject(s): Children; God; Kisses; Mothers; Portraits; Childhood A MYSTERY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus a young wife, alighting from the train Last Line: In mute amazement at each other stare. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Kisses; Marriage; Mystery; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A PASSING HAIL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us rest ourselves a bit! Last Line: It farewell a little while. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Grass; Kisses; Nature A QUESTION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What do I want of you? You fill Last Line: I think the world hears my heart beat. Subject(s): Blindness; Kisses; Love; Visually Handicapped A RECORD; A FRAGMENT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the dark tempestuous sea Last Line: Through birth and death, doth upward range. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Sea; Soul; Tears; Nightmares; Ocean A REMINISCENCE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the wild honey-bee kissing a rose Last Line: That a bee could have carried me so far away? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love; Memory; Roses; Sun A RHYME FOR CHRISTMAS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If browning only were here Last Line: Though it took us till christmas next year to see through it. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; Kisses; Rhyme; Nativity, The A ROSE, by ARLO BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a jacqueminot rose Last Line: "went a kiss that I'm wearing." Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love; Roses A SONG OF LOVE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love laid his hands on my two hands Last Line: Love, must not they be sweet? Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Kisses; Love A STOLEN KISS, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now gentle sleep hath closed up those eyes Last Line: And twenty hundred thousand more for loan. Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Beginnings A STORY, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a gleam of sunshine a gentian stood Last Line: The bee flew over the plain. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Life; Love A TEST OF LOVE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He wooed her first in an atmosphere Last Line: And kissed him a hundred times. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hate; Kisses; Laughter; Love A THIEF'S APOLOGY, by ROBERT PORTER ST. JOHN Poem Text First Line: I stole a kiss! - what could I do? Last Line: I stole a kiss. Subject(s): Kisses A TRILOGY: FLAME, by L. J. STANTON Poem Text First Line: Your negligee. The curtained room Last Line: But a bedroom of satiety. Subject(s): Brides; Desire; Kisses; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A TWINTORETTE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! My little maiden Last Line: Lisps and loving words. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Kisses; Love A WOMAN'S DEATH-WOUND, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It left upon her tender flesh no trace Last Line: "did I deserve to die this bitterest way?" Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Murder; Women; Dead, The ABSURDITY, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: His paranoia gripped us in its fist Last Line: With sense gave the signal to begin Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love AD ASTRA: 50, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: So now I wait, if haply I may find Last Line: They told of depths I would have died to prove! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love AD ASTRA: 60, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Awake, my love, the morn is newly drest! Last Line: As from thy lips they take their sweet supplies.' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love ADOLESCENCE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: We were alone together Last Line: From her mournful eyes Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Romance; Youth AFTER THE FROST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the frost! O the rose is dead Last Line: After the frost -- the frost! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Frost; Gardens & Gardening; Kisses; Roses AGAINST MODESTY IN LOVE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For many unsuccessful years Last Line: Had foolishly denied. Subject(s): Cupid; Fear; Kisses; Love; Modesty; Tears; Eros AGRO-DOLCE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One kiss from all others prevents me Last Line: The sunshine and shade of my day. Subject(s): Kisses ALL FOR ME, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world grows green on a thousand hills Last Line: You and your court came north together. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Summer; Wind ALLA THA'S ALL RIGHT, BUT, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody come and carry me into a seven-day kiss Last Line: Somebody come on and c arry me / over there! Subject(s): Kisses ALLEGRO, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: How she strode by Last Line: In the fields. ... Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love ALMANSOR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In fair cordova's cathedral Last Line: And the christian gods wail loudly. Subject(s): Churches; Kisses; Lips; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology AMANTIUM IRAE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love hath querulous grown and sad Last Line: We should have parted yesterday. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements AMBITIOUS RAINS OF MOIST SEPTEMBER, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source Last Line: The flowered illusion %pano-ramas Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Desire; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Singing And Singers AMPHITRYON: PASTORAL DIALOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thyrsis: fair iris and her swain Last Line: And fear not to be poor. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Kisses; Plays & Playwrights ; Dead, The; Destiny; Dramatists AN APRIL DAY, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: On such a day as this I think Last Line: On such a day as this. Subject(s): April; Kisses; Love AN EPIGRAM OF MARTIAL, IMITATED, by CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, chloe, and give me sweet kisses Last Line: With few will be ever content. Subject(s): Kisses AN EVOCATION, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first upon my brow I felt your kiss Last Line: A throng of ancient kisses vile and vain! Subject(s): Kisses; Lust AN INDIAN LOVE SONG (WRITTEN TO AN INDIAN TUNE), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lift up the veils that darken the delicate moon of thy Last Line: Redeem with his tears the memoried sorrow that sullied a bygone age. Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Roses AN OLD MAN TO AN OLD MADEIRA, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first you trembled at my kiss Last Line: To other younger sinners. Subject(s): Aging; Kisses; Past; Youth AN OLD RHYME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I dare not ask a kisse Subject(s): Kisses ANACTORIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My life is bitter with thy love; thine eyes Last Line: Thick darkness and the insuperable sea. Subject(s): Beauty; Kisses; Life; Love - Nature Of AND THEY ARE DUMB, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been across the bridges of the years wet with tears Last Line: And they are dumb! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Kisses; Tears; Truth; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness ANGELICA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now that heaven my wish hath granted Last Line: Gets so very quickly cold. Subject(s): Beauty; Kisses; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 2, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My head by the maiden swarthy but fair Last Line: To bear heaven's dispensations. Subject(s): Bodies; Fate; Kisses; Tears; Destiny AQUARELLE AFTER WATTEAU, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Shepherdess, - nay, go not yet Last Line: Gainst your own! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Courtship; Kisses; Rain ARMORED, by LUCILE HARGROVE REYNOLDS Poem Text First Line: Your kiss lies hearteningly upon / my lips Last Line: Can reach my heart. Subject(s): Kisses ASTRAEA, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since I avail no more, o men! With you Last Line: To kiss (ah, with what sorrow!) all my dead. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Farewell; Kisses; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Parting AT COLUMBINE'S WINDOW, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight to her window-sill Last Line: The kiss of columbine. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Kisses AT THE GATE OF THE YEAR, by VINCENT JAMES O'SULLIVAN Poem Text First Line: Plunging through on a funeral gale Last Line: Ere you will kiss mine eyes again? Alternate Author Name(s): O'suilleabhain, Sean Subject(s): Holidays; Kisses; Life; New Year; Sea; Soul; Ocean ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 13, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the black and rocky caldron Last Line: Would they take the passage-money. Subject(s): Kisses; Night; Silence; Bedtime AUREOLA, by NELLIE COOLEY ALDER Poem Text First Line: Your spirit goes in pearl and rose Last Line: That's when I love your spirit best. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Roses AUSTRALIA IN LONDON, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the battle over Last Line: We fought, as you, to be free. Subject(s): Australia; Freedom; Kisses; London; Youth; Liberty BACKROAD, by AMY FLEURY Poem Source First Line: I remember the first whiskey kiss Last Line: And guilt, caught like a thorn in my throat Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Winter BALLAD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soft white lamb in the daisy meadow Last Line: In the nest of paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses BASEBALL, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About the time I got my first baseman's mitt Subject(s): Baseball; Wit & Humor; Dean, Dizzy (1910-1974); Kisses BEFORE SAILING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lean closer, darling, let thy tender heart" Last Line: "we are not sundered, though farewell be said" Subject(s): Absence;farewell;kisses;love; Separation;isolation;parting BELOVED, by MABEL C. ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: Kiss me, beloved! Last Line: Kiss me, love! Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love BETRAYAL, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whom I shall kiss,' I heard a sunbeam say Last Line: He kissed the dawn-star pale. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Dawn; Kisses; Sunrise BEYOND, by PAUL WEST Poem Text First Line: She was just a bit inclined Last Line: "and they kissed -- ""beyond the veil!" Subject(s): Kisses BY DEGREES, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I make a very modest plea Last Line: Perhaps you'll say the word. Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Beginnings CAPITULATION, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, some april seeds surrendered Last Line: Two serpent slaves enter my life at night Subject(s): Courtship; Kisses; Love CAPTIVE, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer comes, the summer dies Last Line: One rapture of the wilderness! Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Longing; Summer; Dead, The CARESS, by JUANITA FERNANDEZ MORALES Poem Source First Line: The soundless dusk was growing dim Last Line: And I felt the sensation of a kiss Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Kisses; Roses CARLOS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I knelt low at my lady's feet Last Line: So has another paradise been lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Heaven; Kisses; Love; Night; Paradise; Bedtime CARPE DIEM, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a time for all things, sweet! Last Line: And mourn lost blisses. Subject(s): Churches; Death; Flowers; Kisses; Lips; Roses; Worship; Cathedrals; Dead, The CATHERINE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A beauteous star arises o'er my night Last Line: Their ghostly scent still haunts my bosom. Subject(s): Fate; Kisses; Life; Night; Stars; Destiny; Bedtime CELESTE: 6. THE KISS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a tune in my head tonight Last Line: Is it this?) of her kiss! Subject(s): Kisses CHAMBER MUSIC: 31, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, it was out by donnycarney Last Line: Was the kiss she gave to me. Subject(s): Kisses CHAMBER MUSIC: 34, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep now, o sleep now Last Line: O you unquiet heart! Subject(s): Sleep; Winter; Kisses; Love; Peace CHRISTINE'S SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up in tentoleena land Last Line: Out of tentoleena land! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Flowers; Kisses; Elves CINQUAIN, by MINNIE FAEGRE KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twin stars / gleam in the pool Last Line: Who weeps. Subject(s): Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Stars; Male-female Relations COME BACK!, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Oh why did you heed, eugene Last Line: Come back for me, eugene, eugene! Subject(s): Absence; Death; Graves; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones COME KISS ME, DEAR, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Come kiss me, dear - a little play Last Line: "come kiss me, dear." Subject(s): Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations COMFORT IN THE NIGHT, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She thought by heaven's high wall that she did stray Last Line: Then the gate closed and she awoke content. Subject(s): Comfort; Contentment; Kisses; Light; Night; Bedtime COMMINATION, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Taking my walk the other day Last Line: And I too had a mind to let her. Subject(s): Anger; Girls; Kisses CONCERNING KISSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There's a jolly saxon proverb that it pretty much like this Last Line: "is to want a kiss, and take it" Variant Title(s): "if You Want A Kiss, Why, Take It; Subject(s): Kisses;proverbs; Maxims;adages CUB LOVE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I am thinking tonight of the sweethearts I had Last Line: The best in the world for my wife. Subject(s): Courtship; Kisses; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CUPID'S PROMISE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft cupid, wanton, amorous boy Last Line: And, by thy grant, his power show? Subject(s): Cupid; Kisses; Oaths; Singing & Singers; Voices; Eros CURIOUSLY EVANESCENT, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: There is a love so perfect it requires Last Line: But it will vanish at a single kiss. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Kisses; Love CYNTHIADES: TO CYNTHIA ON A KISS, by FRANCIS KYNASTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Being thy servant, cynthia, 'tis my duty Last Line: By giving kisses wax, or dry, or pale. Subject(s): Kisses; Love CYNTHIADES: TO CYNTHIA ON A PARTING KISS, by FRANCIS KYNASTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So would a soul, if that it did but know Last Line: I may not know, which kiss shall be my last. Subject(s): Farewell; Kisses; Love; Parting DA MI BASIA MILLE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy eros mistakes me Last Line: Kisses & a thousand more Subject(s): Kisses DEARTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold your trembling hand Last Line: Than e'en your broken sobs may now declare. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Tears DIALOGUE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ghost without: dost thou remember? Last Line: God, how I remember! Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Memory DOLORES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Cold eyelids that hide like a jewel Last Line: Our lady of pain. Subject(s): Cruelty; Kisses; Pain; Women; Suffering; Misery DOMEDAY BOOK: JOHN CAMPBELL AND CARL EATON, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carl eaton and john campbell both were raised Last Line: In fairbanks, and the talk is in these words: Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Life; Love DOMEDAY BOOK: MIRIAM FAY'S LETTER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elenor murray asked to go in training Last Line: Who ran the times. Subject(s): Evil; Kisses; Letters; Life; Love DOUBTS, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if guys think I can't kiss because I can think? Subject(s): Self-doubt; Kisses DREAM-TRYST, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The breaths of kissing night and day Last Line: Nor can her eyes go out. Subject(s): Kisses DREAMS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god for dreams! I, desolate and lone Last Line: Thank god, thank god for dreams! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; God; Kisses; Pain; Soul; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery DRINK TO ME ONLY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Drink to me only with thine eyes Last Line: I would not change for thine Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;eyes;kisses;soul DURHAM MILITIA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "you are going to be a militia man, a valiant volunteer" Last Line: The durham volunteers should find themselves in meat and clothes Subject(s): Beer;drinks & Drinking;kisses;soldiers;war; Ale E SEMPRE BENE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: But shall we not grow tired of joy Last Line: Shall be astonished at each kiss. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Memory EARTH TO SPRING, by R. W. COWARD Poem Text First Line: O maid with eyes of sweetest tender blue Last Line: By dainty touch of fairy finger tips. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Eros EBB-TIDE, by BESS GILLESPIE CARTER Poem Text First Line: I held you in my arms Last Line: That vivid moment of anticipation! Subject(s): Love; Kisses; Longing ECLOGUE, by MAGDA GUTAI Poem Source First Line: I took off my clothes Last Line: Its eyes are filled with tears Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Passion; Pleasure EDEN RETOLD: 3. THE KISS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first kiss was with stumbling fingertips Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Kisses; Eve EMMA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stands as firm as a tree stem Last Line: After life comes death at last. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Life; Love; Pity; Dead, The EPICEDIUM: WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Say, who shall mourn him first Last Line: And his first word was noble as his last! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Italy; Kisses; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Italians EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'I never give a kiss,' says prue" Last Line: "she'll take one though, and thank you for it!" Subject(s): Kisses EPIGRAM ON KISSES, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me three kisses, phillis; if not three Last Line: Then take back yours, or give me mine again. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Kisses EPIGRAM: 1, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, madam, for stealing of a kiss Last Line: The next shall clean out of my breast it pluck. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 44 Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Life EPIGRAM: 19, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature that gave the bee so feat a grace Last Line: In change whereof I leave my heart behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 68 Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Lips; Nature ERIC AND AXEL, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though they never divided my meat or wine Last Line: "when she calls: ""ho, eric!"" and ""axel, ho!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Singing & Singers ETERNAL BRIDAL BED, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only when it ceases to be is love strong! Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love ETERNAL BRIDAL BED, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only when it ends is love strong! Last Line: In love's universal tryst Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love EXMOOR VERSES: 2. SATURN, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From my farm, from her farm Last Line: The planet saturn burned. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Farm Life; Kisses; Agriculture; Farmers EXORCISM, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She who one day was my guest Last Line: Kiss me, blue-eyed comedy! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Dead, The FAERIE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the edge of midnight Last Line: And has this chanced to me? Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Passion; Dead, The FEW CANVASES OF MEMORY, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A laughable phantom kisses a spikenard Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Memory FINIS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On softly stepping feet Last Line: And she will no further seek. Subject(s): Clouds; Dawn; Death; Kisses; Worms; Sunrise; Dead, The FIREFLIES, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: It was that evening with the fireflies Last Line: With flashes of light around your head. %it was then Subject(s): Fireflies; Happiness; Kisses; Love; Old Age FIRST KISS, by CHRISTIE LUND Poem Text First Line: Kissed before? My memory replies Last Line: "no, not ever . . . Really . . . Kissed before." Subject(s): Kisses FLESH, CELESTIAL FLESH OF WOMAN!, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flesh, celestial flesh of woman! Clay Last Line: Before the eternity of what probably is...! Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 2. LITTLE GENTIAN, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lean, little mother, o'er my bed Last Line: This flower shuts too. Subject(s): God; Kisses; Love; Mothers FOR LOVE'S SAKE, KISS ME ONCE AGAIN!, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Let who will think us dead, or wish our death. Variant Title(s): He Teaches Her To Kiss;of Kissing Subject(s): Innocence; Kisses; Love FRIDA KAHLO & NICK MURAY, by KATHERINE HARER Poem Source First Line: Her long hands his body bright and loose as a shawl rebozo he liked the Last Line: The tiny cushion she gave him when she left Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships FROM THE FRENCH, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: The color of coral and of your lips Last Line: Permitting space and voice to go without reference Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Flowers; Kisses; Love GABRIELLE, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: A griffin crouches on an oriel plinth Last Line: The lady couch'd thereby. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Doves; Grief; Kisses; Love; Sorrow; Sadness GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 21, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They bit by bit are building again Last Line: "is stirr'd with indignation." Subject(s): Birds; Hamburg Fire (1842); Kisses; Love GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 26, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cheeks of the goddess glow'd all-red Last Line: "methinks it by far the best place is." Subject(s): Future; Grief; Hamburg, Germany; Kisses; Love; Sorrow; Sadness GERSUIND, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some amorous demon wrought your limbs Last Line: And pray until the doom of dawn. Subject(s): Graves; Kisses; Love; Voices; Women; Tombs; Tombstones GLINT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother mentioned only once how the piano teacher she had as Last Line: They're drifting just outside the tune. Subject(s): Grandparents; Kisses; Lips; Music Teachers; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GORMFLAITH'S SONG, FR. KING LEAR'S WIFE, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you have a mind to kiss me Last Line: I'll shut mine. Come, have you spied me? Subject(s): Kisses GREEN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here fruit and flowers I bring to thee; green leaves and sprays I proffer Last Line: And sleep awhile, when thy fond love its haven shall have found. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love; Nature; Soul GREY PASTURES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the grey gloaming where the white moth flies Last Line: Mayhap I may thrill again at the touch of this. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Despair; Kisses; Life; Longing; Nostalgia; Dead, The HAVE YOU SEEN MY MISSUS?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "you've heard of my children, two, seeking for each other?" Last Line: Till I tumble into bed - it's then I miss my missus Subject(s): Kisses;marriage;obesity; Weddings;husbands;wives HE KNOWS, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: Tis not in vain if in a glade Last Line: He knows! He knows! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Kisses; Nature HER LIPS ARE COPPER WIRE, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whisper of yellow globes Subject(s): Kisses HER MOUTH AND MINE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: As I lay dreaming, open-eyed Last Line: "greedy-in-love, leave go! Leave go!" Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Kisses HER REASON, by JAMES P. SAWYER Poem Text First Line: Once a learned boston maiden Last Line: "I cannot allow a kiss." Subject(s): Kisses HIS IMAGINARY FRIEND, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I meet her twice a day for tea Last Line: Before I consummate my love %in kleenex facial tissue Subject(s): Friendship; Hearts; Kisses; Love HOPE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope, bending o'er me one time, snowed the flakes Last Line: "what makes my little girl so sad to-night?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Kisses; Nightmares; Optimism HORTENSE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I thought each kiss a woman Last Line: Our passing fondness ended. Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Life; Love; Nightmares HOW DOES LOVE SPEAK?, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How does love speak? Last Line: Thus doth love speak. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Nature Of; Passion HUSBAND AND WIFE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh kiss me once before I go Last Line: "I would have kissed him now." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Absence; Kisses; Life; Love; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives I AM FIRST MOUTH, THEN HAND, by EDWYNA PRIOR Poem Source Last Line: Never to arrive Subject(s): Kisses; Riddles I BLOW YOU A KISS, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I blow you a kiss on the evening wind Last Line: Only a little tear. Subject(s): Kisses I DO NOT REMEMBER THE NUMBER', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Upon your trembling eyelids Subject(s): Kisses; Memory; Relationships I LOVE MY LOVE WITH A KISS, by ALEXANDER MACLEAN Poem Text First Line: Oh, I love my love in the sunny summer - time Last Line: Is the love I know is mine. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love; Roses I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When the shy snake hisses Last Line: I remember certain kisses. Subject(s): Animals; Kisses; Snakes I SEEK A FORM, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I seek a form that my style cannot discover Last Line: And the neck of the great white swan, that questions me Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Roses I WATCH SWIFT PICTURES, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watch swift pictures flash and fade Last Line: Into to-morrow? Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Kisses; Lips; Love I WONDER, LOVE, by PEDRO SALINAS Poem Source First Line: I wonder, love, are you Last Line: And that the most certain thing is goodbye Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Kisses; Lips I'M TOO FAT TO DO IT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It is a fact I'm very stout Last Line: Cos I'm too fat to do it Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;kisses;obesity IDYLL 20. NETEHEARD, by THEOCRITUS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eunica skornde me, when her I would have sweetly kist Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos Subject(s): Country Life; Kisses; Love - Unrequited IDYLL 20. NETEHEARD, by THEOCRITUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eunica skornde me, when her I would have sweetly kist Last Line: In cittie nor on hill, but all the night must sleep alone Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos Subject(s): Country Life; Kisses; Love - Unrequited IDYLL 20: THE NEATHERD'S LAMENT, by THEOCRITUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eunica laughed out at me when sweetly I would have kissed her Last Line: Kiss thy darling, and lonely all the long night mayst thou sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Unrequited IF ONE WERE TO KEEP...., by CHARLES VILDRAC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If one were to keep for many years and days Last Line: That I would call for death -- with a great cry! . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Messager, Charle Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Death; Kisses; Sea; Seasons; Women; Fall; Dead, The; Ocean IL BACIO, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text 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 IMAGISTE LOVE LINES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I love my lady with a deep purple love Subject(s): Eyes;kisses;love IMPROVISATIONS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the lonely halls of the night Last Line: And here's to the goddess show Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Dead, The IN MAKING A HONEYSUCKLE HUG, by R. GERRY FABIAN Poem Source First Line: You need: %one part arms of soft cotton Last Line: Always enhances the flavor Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love IN MAY, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: How were our spirits moved when first we felt Last Line: Beneath the tyrian ships. Subject(s): Kisses; Love IN MAY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The friends whom I kiss'd and caress'd of yore Last Line: O beauteous world, I hate thee anew! Subject(s): Friendship; Hearts; Kisses; Spring IN NEW YORK: 3. WEARINESS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sometimes think thou art my secret love Last Line: Then give, beseech thee, give me sleep. Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Life; Love; New York City; Nightmares; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple IN THE AFTERNOON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You in the hammock; and I, near Last Line: Kiss me again, my dear! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Afternoon; Books; Hammocks; Kisses; Reading IN THE CORRIDOR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! At last alone, love! Last Line: In the corridor? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Kisses; Love IN THE EVENING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the evening of our days Last Line: In the evening of our days. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Evening; Kisses; Marriage; Youth; Sunset; Twilight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN THE NIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cry like a child's cry lost in the rain Last Line: Laughed and kissed in ecstasy! Subject(s): Children; Faces; Flowers; Kisses; Night; Rain; Tears; Childhood; Bedtime IN THE NOVEL, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He described her mouth as full of ashes. Subject(s): Kisses IN THE PLAGUE YEARS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the old cartoon the terrified Last Line: In death's and mummy's %and big daddy's one shrinking eye Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Quarrels INDISCRIMINATE KISSES, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Source First Line: Foreplay of obscene graffiti carved Last Line: Some distance from where I set in Subject(s): Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Youth INEVITABLE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day I was so weary and I lay Last Line: Forgetting all my need of peace and rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Kisses; Infants INSCRIPTION FOR A CITY'S GATE OF WARRIORS, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fear not the shadow! Open, lofty gate Last Line: Stains of clear blood from sandals steeped in red. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Kisses; Lips; War; Urban Life; Dead, The INTERVAL OF FLAME, by SYLVIA GARDINER LUFBURROW Poem Text First Line: I should have met your tentative caress Last Line: An interval of flame in your embrace. Subject(s): Kisses INTIMATIONS, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The conversation went on through the night Last Line: Startled, wet with truth Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Passion IS IT DONE?, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is done! In the fire's fitful flashes Last Line: Will dream they are playing their parts. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Fire; Happiness; Hearts; Hope; Kisses; Pain; Nightmares; Joy; Delight; Optimism; Suffering; Misery ISLA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Isla, isla, heart of my heart, it is you alone I am loving Last Line: And I to my kingdom come, my king, my mouth to thy mouth! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Absence; Death; Desire; Kisses; Love; Reunions; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The IT HAPPENED IN MAY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A maid forsaken Last Line: And it happened in may. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Kisses; May (month); Prayer JUDITH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O her eyes are amber-fine-- Last Line: Sweet as heated honey is. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Eyes; Faces; Kisses KAMASUTRA: KISSES CLASSIFIED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When she looks at his face while he sleeps and kisses it show her desire Last Line: With stroke for stroke, and kiss for kiss Subject(s): Kisses KING HAROLD HARFAGAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great king harold harfagar Last Line: With loving kisses replying. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Kisses; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Nightmares KISS, by JOAN BROSSA Poem Source First Line: It seems Last Line: Feel about chloe's kiss? Subject(s): Kisses; Poetry And Poets KISS, by NEIL EMMANUEL CARPATHIOS Poem Source First Line: By freezing passion at its blossoming Last Line: By which they darken; darken nevertheless Subject(s): Kisses KISS, by CHARLOTTE DACRE Poem Source First Line: The greatest kiss Last Line: Too tremulously fine! Subject(s): Kisses KISS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did klimt mean by Last Line: Kisses all over my body Subject(s): Kisses KISS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the films when the couples kiss Last Line: Knew it had come before it was gone Variant Title(s): Kissin Subject(s): Kisses KISS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My gostly fader [ghostly father], I me confesse Last Line: First to god and than to you Subject(s): Kisses KISS ME, KATIE!, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Katie, katie, little katie! Last Line: Katie, don't! Subject(s): Kisses KISS'D YESTREEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "kiss'd yestreen, and kiss'd yestreen" Last Line: Sic kindly kisses as he gae me Subject(s): Kisses;love KISS, FR. THE GENTLE SHEPHERD, by ALLAN RAMSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O patie, let me gang, I mauna stay Last Line: Are inferior to a kiss of thee Subject(s): Kisses KISSES, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wouldn't be too free with my kisses Last Line: Till the right man comes to gather them at last! Subject(s): Kisses KISSES, by GWEN DAVIS Poem Source Last Line: Fluttering the tongue %aiming at the heart. %they cannot %change the shape of the words Subject(s): Kisses KISSES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the food that satisfies a guest Last Line: Kisses are but dry banquets to a feast. Subject(s): Kisses KISSES, by WILLIAM STRODE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love and I for kisses played Last Line: "take your own kisses; give me mine again." Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Beginnings KISSES AND DEATH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mistress, kiss me, clasp me, hold me close! Last Line: Life's day -- so brief, alas! -- excels the night. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Life; Lips; Love; Dead, The KISSES DESIRED, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I with strange desire Last Line: After one kiss, but still one kiss, my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Subject(s): Kisses; Love KISSES LOATHSOME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I abhor the slimy kiss Last Line: When the ruff is set elsewhere? Subject(s): Kisses; Love KISSES OF FIRE, by FRANCES W. CARLIN Poem Source First Line: A kiss is just a way to say Last Line: Our love is brief, but oh the passion Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Passion KISSIN', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Some say kissin's ae sin Last Line: If it werena plenty, %puir folk couldna' hae it Subject(s): Kisses KISSING, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither, womankind and all their worth Last Line: So, 'tis enough. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Kisses; Love KISSING, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are kissing, on a park bench Last Line: Onto each other. They are kissing. Subject(s): Desire; Kisses KISSING A HORSE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the two spoiled, barn-sour geldings Subject(s): Horses; Kisses KISSING AGAIN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kissing again, after a long drought of Subject(s): Kisses; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives KISSING AND BUSSING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kissing and bussing differ both in this Last Line: We busse our wantons, but our wives we kisse. Subject(s): Kisses KISSING BRIDGE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No roebling reared that primal way Last Line: As then in old nieuw amsterdam! Subject(s): Bridges; Kisses; New England; New York City - Dutch Period KISSING CASUISTRY; EPIGRAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When sarah jane, the moral miss Last Line: She'd rather suffer wrong than do it! Subject(s): Kisses KISSING HELENA, by PLATO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kissing helena, together Last Line: Oh, cruel I, to intercept it! Variant Title(s): Epigram: Kissing Helena Subject(s): Kisses KISSING THE STOMACH, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Kisses; Love KISSING USURIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Biancha, let / me pay ther debt Last Line: Make payment for his pleasure. Subject(s): Kisses KISSING'S NO SIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Some say that kissing's a sin Last Line: "if it wasn't plenty, / puir folk wadna get it" Subject(s): Kisses;love - Beginnings KOREAN LOVE-SONG, by BENET ROSNY Poem Text First Line: I have made me a sword, and the water Last Line: God made its sheath. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love LAUS VENERIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Asleep or waking is it? For her neck Last Line: Explicit laus veneris. Subject(s): Death; God; Kisses; Love - Nature Of; Dead, The LEAVE A KISS WITHIN THE CUP, by AGATHIAS SCHOLASTICUS Poem Text First Line: I love not wine; yet if thou'ldst make / a sad man merry, sip first sup Last Line: And tells the joy it had of thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Agathias Scholasticos Subject(s): Kisses LEMON (LUMUNA), by STANLEY H. BARKAN Poem Source First Line: Pumaroro! Nespole! Lumuna!' Last Line: So sweetly nippled waiting for a kiss Subject(s): Aphrodite; Kisses; Lemons; Mythology - Classical LESBIA, LET US LIVE ONLY FOR LOVING, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Knowning the volume of our trade in kisses Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Kisses; Love LETTIE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lettie-she lives in orchard room Last Line: While I'm—wal, I'm a-nussin' her! Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love LIKE THE SEA, KISSES, by VICENTE ALEIXANDRE Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: Emblems mean nothing Last Line: Magical in the light, then they turn lifeless Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Romance LINES, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The moon grew pale. -- the weeping seraphim Last Line: A fall of stars which perfumed all the night. Subject(s): Kisses; Vision LITTLE BLUE HOOD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning and every night Last Line: Are you glad we love you, or don't you care? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Faces; Kisses; Love LITTLE POEMS ABOUT LOVE, by STUART MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Seven times the four seasons had passed over the woods and the Last Line: Word suffices for my stammering folly, a word you know well, o beloved! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Nations; Past LORD OF MY LIFE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He laid his dear face next to mine Last Line: My grief! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Grief; Kisses; Loss; Love; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE IN PATAGONIA; TO CARL VAN VECHTEN, by DONALD EVANS Poem Text First Line: Forgetting her mauve vows the fania fled Last Line: And then I danced along the boulevard! Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Sin; Dead, The LOVE LYRIC, by TORQUATO TASSO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Most perfect kiss - %this softest recompense Last Line: While sweetness has entranced %the soul that seals our lips to swoon to its rest! Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Scottish Translations LOVE PALPABLE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I prest my julia's lips, and in the kisse Last Line: Her soule and love were palpable in this. Subject(s): Kisses LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 23, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I could be Last Line: To embrace you forever Subject(s): Kisses; Romance LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 34, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning, I %wake alone, dreaming my Last Line: Arm is your sweet flesh %pressing my lips Subject(s): Desire; Kisses; Longing LOVE'S FIRST KISS, by THOMAS STEWART Poem Text First Line: I, musingly, in mem'ry, cast my eyes Last Line: But love's pure flame shall light eternal spheres. Alternate Author Name(s): Rustic Rhymer Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Memory LOVE'S LESSON, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon each month is blenched Last Line: Belongs infinity. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Moon; Sleep LOVE'S MASQUERADES: LOVE, THE AWAKENER, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Love, through the stars, swoop'd down the violet sky Last Line: And sleep for ever banish'd from his bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Sleep LOVE'S MOODS AND SENSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sally salter, she was a young lady who taught" Subject(s): Clergy;kisses;love; Priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops LOVE'S SLEEP, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We'll cover love with roses Last Line: "but sing, ""love, tra-la-lee!" Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Cupid; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Roses; Sleep; Eros LOVERS AT THE LAKE SIDE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And you brought him home? I did, ay ronald, it rested with me Last Line: Laura! But give me my troth kiss again.' 'and give me my ring.' Subject(s): Hope; Kisses; Lakes; Life; Love; Optimism; Pools; Ponds LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 14, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swear not at all, but only kiss! Last Line: And even longer, thou'lt love me. Subject(s): Kisses; Love LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 16, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world's an ass, the world can't see Last Line: How rapturously glowing. Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Ignorance; Kisses; Mules; Dullness; Stupdity LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 34, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in the tomb, my mistress fair Last Line: Still clasp'd in embraces enthralling. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Kisses; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 4, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When gazing on thy beauteous eyes Last Line: I begin weeping bitterly. Subject(s): Eyes; Kisses; Love LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 57, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt once more the vision of yore Last Line: But the biting was rather too spiteful! Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Kisses; Love - Complaints; Nightmares; Paradise LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll dip my spirit discreetly Last Line: In a wondrous moment of bliss. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Lilies; Singing & Singers; Songs MA DEESSE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her brow, - no language can express Last Line: Aught of angel-perfectness! Subject(s): Angels; Hearts; Kisses; Lips; Love MADRIGAL: BESIDE A FOUNTAIN, by THOMAS MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside a fountain / of sweet briar and roses Last Line: Come kiss me then and shew it. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love MAKE BELIEVE (2), by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kiss me, though you make believe Last Line: You are jesting with my pain. Subject(s): Disappointment; Kisses MAN'S DEVOTION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lover said, o maiden, love me well Last Line: He was a widower. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Widows & Widowers MARIE, ARISE!', by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marie, arise, my indolent sweet saint! Last Line: A hundred times, to teach you early rising! Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Kisses; Love MARJORIE'S KISSES, by WALTER LEARNED Poem Text First Line: Marjorie laughs and climbs on my knee Last Line: When marjorie's seventeen. Subject(s): Charm; Kisses; Youth MAURINE: PART 3, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One golden twelfth part of a checkered year Last Line: That only he who watched with sorrow knows. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Lakes; Love; Rowing; Women; Nightmares; Pools; Ponds MAYPOLE CHORUS, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The maypole! The maypole! Last Line: Merrily all the way. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Flowers; Kisses MINGUILLO'S KISS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "since for kissing thee, minguillo" Subject(s): Kisses;women MOMENT, by TOONI GORDI Poem Text First Line: Full-cupped a thousand beats Last Line: Kissing her throat. Subject(s): Kisses; Lips MOON SONG, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kiss me with flowers and flagons Last Line: In a dream that has conquered time. Subject(s): Kisses MOON-DROWNED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the height of the fete when Last Line: Purple and gold and ivory! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Moon; Night; Stars; Bedtime MOONLIGHT, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kiss that would make a maid's cheek flush Last Line: Whilst lovers came and courted. Subject(s): Kisses MOVIE ABOUT THE DEAD CELLIST, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is perfectly straightforward: it's england so there's a fog but also tea Last Line: Against the ceiling like bats: invisible, making no audible sound Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships MY BABY'S LIPS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: My baby's lips can reach my hand Last Line: Kiss on, o baby mine. Subject(s): Babies; Hands; Kisses; Infants MY JOLLY FRIEND'S SECRET, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, friend of mine, how goes it Last Line: I am purty tight -- that's all! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Friendship; Kisses; Secrets; Wine NEVER TOO LATE TO SCORE, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Having shot 22 pistol Last Line: Right up there with %my first french kiss Subject(s): Hunting; Kisses NEVER TRY TO TRICK ME WITH A KISS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Kisses NEW APRIL, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God guard you, and greet you well Last Line: That shut me close in my retreat. Subject(s): April; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Spring NEW SPRING: 25, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me who first taught clocks to chime Last Line: The sun was laughing, the birds were singing. Subject(s): Kisses; May (month); Spring NEW SPRING: 28, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kisses that one steals in darkness Last Line: For to weep is easier still. Subject(s): Kisses NEW SPRING: 30, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my remembrance blossom Last Line: The withered roses show thee. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love; Roses NOCTURNE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rim of the moon Last Line: On my grief, astore! Subject(s): Kisses; Moon NOON, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the hills and far away Last Line: And has joined us with a nod. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Kisses; Noon; Wisdom; Dead, The; World ODA, by JUAN MELENDEZ VALDES Poem Source First Line: When first a gentle kiss Last Line: Did from adonis count Subject(s): Kisses; Love ODE TO HER AROMA, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soft woman, what do you smell of Last Line: That awaits me %in your mouth Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships ODE TO THE TANGERINE, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: We want %to drink you up Last Line: With that %single kiss Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love OLD IRISH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The old irish word for kiss Last Line: He knows how stupid it is to think Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Ireland; Kisses; Relationships ON BEAUTY; A RIDDLE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Resolve me, cloe, what is this Last Line: Of idle tales, and foolish riddles. Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Kisses; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Riddles ON THE DEATH OF A MOTHER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little maiden, her doll to her Last Line: Mother to mother means dear to dear. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fear; Kisses; Love; Mothers; Dead, The; World ON THE LIBRARY WINDOW, by NICOLE CUDDEBACK Poem Source First Line: Coy, novel vandalism, ghost Last Line: Kiss me. Let me out. Stay Variant Title(s): Kiss On The Library Windo Subject(s): Kisses; Vandalism ONCE, by MARY LOUISE RITTER Poem Text First Line: The june roses covered the hedges with blushes Last Line: A kiss tells what living and loving might be. Subject(s): Kisses; Love ONE MORE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a smile and a kiss he went away Last Line: The father whom they sacrificed. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Life; Love; Smiles; Dead, The OUR LOVE, by XAVIER VILLAURRUTIA Poem Source First Line: If our love were not Last Line: Our love would not be! Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love OUR MORNING GLORY, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come listen to a pretty story Last Line: Of our sweet morning glory. Subject(s): Kisses; Morning; Nature OUR WRONGS, by C. F. H. Poem Text First Line: When girls are only babies Last Line: We can't -- can't -- can't. Subject(s): Irony; Kisses PASSIONATE DOWSABELLA: 1, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Oh! The red rich honeysuckles Last Line: Swung two butterflies in mid-air. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Beauty; Kisses; Love PAULO TO FRANCESCA, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When weary summer had laid down her leaves Last Line: Sealing her prophet lips, alas, with serpent tongue. Subject(s): Kisses; Treason; Lust PEACE IN A PALACE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were weeping in the night,' said the emperor Last Line: "the little eyeless faces of the drowned." Subject(s): Faces; Kisses; Life; Peace; Tears PECKING, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: One kiss to open up the day Last Line: And still went on to peck. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Kisses; Love PENDULUM, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have swung to the uttermost reaches of pain Last Line: On the rapturous swing of an infinite kiss. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Kisses; Pain; Suffering; Misery PHANTOMS, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was her home; one mossy gable thrust Last Line: He cannot help but speak her, face to face. Subject(s): Birds; Home; Kisses; Love PIERROT, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pierrot alone Last Line: Are on my brows. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Moon PLAY, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: This poem will just be itself Last Line: The woods have drunk them up %and the sunshine is licking its lips Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Poetry And Poets PRAYER TO BE AN ARTIST, by MARION CLINCH CALKINS Poem Text First Line: Lord, clip my wings, so may my feet learn flying! Last Line: But keep me standing on the top-most stair. Alternate Author Name(s): Calkins, Clinch Subject(s): Art & Artists; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Kisses; Prayer PROLOGUE TO 'THE PRINCESS OF CLEVES', by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies! (I hope there's none behind to hear) Last Line: To trump their diamonds, & they trump our hearts. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Secrets; Dramatists PROMISES, PROMISES, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am stretched out under the lean-to Subject(s): North Carolina; Kisses; Farewell; Parting PROMISING (A MAN SPEAKS), by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, a new world, the sun-swart marinere Last Line: But -- ah, for present joy, give me one kiss. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Life; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations PROUD LOVE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Proud love is not a foaming tide Last Line: And lands you have not seen. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love PUNCHLINE, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: Who can figure how we end up where Last Line: Have come alive, at last, stay with me tonight Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships PUPA, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can she induce a dream? Last Line: I kiss her, I kiss her until she kisses back Subject(s): Kisses PURPLE AUTUMN, by GEORGY IVANOVICH CHULKOV Poem Text First Line: Purple autumn unloosened her tresses and flung them Last Line: Weaving a wreath of thorns. Variant Title(s): Autumnal Love Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Hearts; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The RAIN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's all very well for you Last Line: And invite you down again! Subject(s): Kisses; Rain; Tears RED WINE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pour the red wine about! Last Line: Unto death. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Wine; Male-female Relations REMEMBERED KISSES, by HARRIET LEE MCMANUS Poem Text First Line: Remembered kisses! Would that I had one Last Line: And gives me just a handful of dried tears. Subject(s): Kisses REQUIEM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where, oh where, should love be laid? Last Line: Human hearts are made. Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Night; Sea; Wind; Bedtime; Ocean REQUIESCAT IN PACE!, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my heart, my heart is sick a-wishing and awaiting Last Line: And veil thy breast with icicles, and thy brow with snow! Subject(s): Family Life; God; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Mountains; Relatives; Hills; Downs (great Britain) REWARDS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because you cried, I kissed you, and Last Line: She would not kiss me when she smiled. Subject(s): Kisses RHYMES: 10, by GUSTAVO ADOLFO BECQUER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The quivering, unseen atoms of air Last Line: My eyes are closed - what can it be? %love is passing by Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Romance RODIN, by BARBARA A. ROUILLARD Poem Source First Line: Tonight I know I'll never be kissed again Last Line: Arena %to be my mouth Subject(s): Kisses; Mouths ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: HASTINGS BATTLE-FIELD, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The abbot of waltham deeply sigh'd Last Line: The monks pray'd, full of compassion. Subject(s): Death; Hastings, Battle Of (1066); Kisses; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: INTRODUCTION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good fortune quite a fickle miss is Last Line: Sits down beside thy bed and knits. Subject(s): Fortune; Hair; Kisses ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 17. EVIL DREAMS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vision once more young and happy, paced I Last Line: As I have hopeless lain for many a year. Subject(s): Dreams; Evil; Kisses; Love; Nightmares ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: READY MONEY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, before she granted favours Last Line: "thou wilt lend upon it, fair one?" Subject(s): Apollo; Kisses; Love; Mythology - Classical RONDEAU, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jenny kissed me when we met Last Line: Jenny kissed me! Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Friendship; Holidays; Innocence; Kisses; Love; New Year; Time; Women RONDEL, by JOHN PAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kiss me, sweetheart, the spring is here Last Line: "and love is lord of you and me." Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Spring ROSE, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rose has a life, they say Last Line: Her smiles and blushes are our soul's mistresses. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Romance; Roses ROUNDELAY, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chloe found amyntas lying Last Line: Kiss'd him up, and eas'd his pain. Variant Title(s): Rondelay Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Tears RUBIES, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often I have heard it said Last Line: Not if kist by other men. Variant Title(s): Her Lips Subject(s): Kisses; Lips RUSTY KEY, by EDITH MILLER REID Poem Text First Line: You didn't care that that first kiss Last Line: And not just till tomorrow! Subject(s): Kisses SAG' MIR WER EINST DIE UHREN ERFUND, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who was it, tell me, that first of men reckon'd Last Line: (richard garnett) Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love SAPPHO: 3, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The twilight's inner flame grows blue and deep Last Line: I sing for one who falls asleep to hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Evening; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Sunset; Twilight SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 10, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What harvest half so sweet is Last Line: None can deny us. Subject(s): Harvest; Kisses SEEDS, by JEANNE WAGNER Poem Source First Line: Someone's tongue %enters your mouth Last Line: Is a language %learned early %or not at all Subject(s): Kisses SEPARATION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When intervals of solitude are done Last Line: And leave the house and me deserted quite! Subject(s): Absence; Kisses; Love; Separation; Isolation SERAPHINA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When at evening in the forest Last Line: Each in the other's love blest. Subject(s): Grief; Kisses; Moon; Night; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime SERENADE, by JEAN FRANCOIS VICTOR AICARD Poem Text First Line: My marguerite, I play Last Line: In this wise sang miette. Subject(s): Eyes; Faces; Kisses; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs SERIOUS EARTH, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A long metallic necklace of cars on an interchange Last Line: And they go on listening too late, waiting to be called, waiting not to sleep Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Singing And Singers; Symphonies SHE KISSED ME ONE EVENING WITH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Kiss. I have drunk love in %abundance Subject(s): Kisses SHE SHOOK HER HEAD, by JAMES P. SAWYER Poem Text First Line: May I kiss you, dear,' a youth once cried Last Line: She turned aside -- and shook her head. Subject(s): Kisses SHIPFITTER'S WIFE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved him most %when he came home from work Last Line: The white fire of the torch, the whistle, %and the long drive home Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Marital; Women SHY MAN, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The full moon was shining upon the broad sea Last Line: As we kiss by the high sea-wall Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love SIDNEY'S ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: CANTO TERTIO. KISSES, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love bound me with a kiss Last Line: Kisses make men loath to go. Subject(s): Kisses SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES SEX EDUCATION CLASS: DOCTRINES KISS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the birds of the air, how Last Line: We're never more ourselves Subject(s): Kisses SONG, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Approaching the water %you resemble a smooth wave Last Line: With the tides %of the bountiful sea Subject(s): Kisses; Love SONG, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Blame the cuckoo that in june Last Line: If love should end as love began. Subject(s): Kisses; Love SONG, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: As a quiet night on discordant sound Last Line: Thy going was fleet. Subject(s): Kisses; Love SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sylvia the fair, in the bloom of fifteen Last Line: And sighing and kissing so close. Subject(s): Kisses; Prayer; Sex; Virginity; Wishes; Vestals SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Why did perico kiss me? Last Line: Why did the traitor kiss me? Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Complaints SONG: 87, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall she never out of my mind Last Line: To see her loving gentleness. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Letters; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 52, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the land of kisses Last Line: The rapture for us both. Subject(s): Kisses SONGS TUNELESS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He kisses me! Ah, now, at last Last Line: And rake the ashes over it. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Night; Youth; Bedtime SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 18, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nanny blushes when I woo her Last Line: The other, take me in her arms. Subject(s): Breasts; Kisses; Lips; Love SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 28, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst others proclaim Last Line: And there is no living without her. Subject(s): Beauty; Cupid; Flowers; Kisses; Lips; Love; Nymphs; Roses; Eros SONNET: 18, by LOUISE LABE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Kiss me again, rekiss me, kiss me more Last Line: Veiling these days in which I find no gladness %if I can't leave myself and find my friend Alternate Author Name(s): La Belle Cordiere Subject(s): Kisses SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 38, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First time he kissed me, he but only kissed Last Line: I have been proud and said, 'my love, my own.' Variant Title(s): Chrism And Crown Of Love;first, Second, Third;three Kisses Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 12, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few more days in this unkind july Last Line: But you -- but you will then be far away. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Variant Title(s): At The Season's End Subject(s): July; Kisses; Moon; Thames (river) SOUND DOCTRINE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quick, beat the drum, and be not afraid Last Line: And also because I drum not amiss. Subject(s): Drums; Kisses; Musical Instruments; Sleep; Youth SPANISH ROSES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roses, roses / yellow and red Last Line: A kiss for a kiss, and a sigh for a sigh! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Variant Title(s): Roses Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Roses; Youth; Dead, The SPEAKING AND KISSING, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The air, which thy smooth voice doth break Last Line: But that which from these accents flows. Subject(s): Kisses SPRING &, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The seed shivers, upping its green Last Line: Very breathing the continuum for light Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Romance SPRING LOVE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her coming through the flowery grass Last Line: My last kiss burning on her lovely mouth. Subject(s): Kisses; Love SPRING WINDS, by ALICE FERRIN HENSEY Poem Text First Line: The young wind comes riding down the rosy slopes of dawn Last Line: Of spring winds at dawn. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Spring SUB SILENTIO, by MARY LOUISE RITTER Poem Text First Line: Hush! The night is calm and quiet Last Line: Satisfying and complete. Subject(s): Kisses SUMMER NIGHT; VARIATIONS OF CERTAIN MELODIES: 1. ANDANTE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the full-blown linden and the plane Last Line: But nothing sleeps, though rest seems everywhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Night; Summer; Bedtime SUMMER NIGHT; VARIATIONS ON CERTAIN MELODIES: 2. ADAGIO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Something came with the falling dusk Last Line: Though kissed a thousand times, kiss not again! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Kisses; Life; Love SUR L'HERBE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The abbe rambles.' - 'you, marquis' Last Line: "do, mi.""—""the moon!—hey, how d'ye do?" Subject(s): Courtship; Kisses SWEET KISS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was little and had Last Line: Been crying as she punished me Subject(s): Kisses; Mothers; Punishment SWEET MOUTH, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet mouth that is inviting to taste Last Line: And all that remains of love is venom Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Lips; Love - Nature Of; Roses TAKINGS, by THOMAS HOOD JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He took her fancy when he came Last Line: And after that he took his leave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hood, Tom, The Younger Subject(s): Absence; Kisses; Separation; Isolation TEA, by MICHELLE LEIGH Poem Source First Line: That man with the burnished indian face. His eye catches mine, just past Last Line: And his small sharp mouth-corner, I see all this and I offer him tea Subject(s): Guests; Kisses; Love TEARS AND KISSES, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are tears sweet, refreshing like dewdrops that rise Last Line: There are kisses that live in the hearts of the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Kisses; Tears THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 8. PRELUDE: THE KISS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw you take his kiss! 'tis true Last Line: He thought I thought he thought I slept.' Variant Title(s): Sly Thoughts Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Love - Beginnings THE AWAKENING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beauties of the world do master me Last Line: And make my nest and sing the joy thereof. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Kisses; Love; Soul; Nightmares THE BLUE SCARF, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale, with the blue of high zeniths, shimmered over with silver, brocaded Last Line: How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone! Subject(s): Infatuation; Love - Unrequited; Scarves; Clothing & Dress; Flowers; Kisses; Women THE BLUE SCARF, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale, with the blue of high zeniths, shimmered over with silver, brocaded Last Line: How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone! Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Flowers; Kisses; Women THE CALL OF SCIENCE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: He speaks: / 'my girl,' quoth he, 'I feel each cell Last Line: Currents reversed for their divorce. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Kisses; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Eros THE CALLING VOICE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great world voice is calling, and the streams Last Line: And I cannot but obey, I cannot but obey. Subject(s): Kisses; Love THE CHILD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little feet running upon the floor Last Line: And even the sweets the heart thought past recover. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Feet; Kisses; Mothers; Youth; Childhood THE CHIMERA'S KISS, by JEAN RICHEPIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fierce chimera's hooded eyes Last Line: Immortal in one moment's bliss. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Mythology; Tears; Dead, The THE CHRISTMAS LONG AGO, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, sing a hale heigh-ho Last Line: Gusts of kisses and surprise. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; Kisses; Past; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The THE CITY OF THE OLESHA FRUIT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the window past the two hills there is the city Last Line: Somewhere inside the mind. Subject(s): Cities; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Physical Disabilities; Weather; Writing & Writers; Urban Life; Male-female Relations; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE CLINGING KISS, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth awhirl Last Line: The clinging kiss. Subject(s): Kisses THE COLD KISS, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such icy kisses, anchorites that live Last Line: That by the flame of mine 'twill melted be. Subject(s): Kisses THE COMPOSITION OF A KISS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cupid, if storying legends tell aright Last Line: And breath'd on sara's lovelier lips the rest. Variant Title(s): Kisses Subject(s): Kisses THE DAISY'S MISTAKE, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sunbeam and zephyr were playing about Last Line: "I had now been safe in my native bower!" Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Beauty; Daisies; Flowers; Kisses THE DEATH OF ROLLA, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Marie then, smiling, looked into the glass Last Line: And for a moment two had tasted bliss. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Happiness; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Parting; Joy; Delight; Male-female Relations THE DREAM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A vision I dreamt of a lovely child Last Line: In silence and all-uncaring. Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Love; Silence; Nightmares THE DREAM, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In fairest garden wandered Last Line: He in a dungeon lay. Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Love; Nightmares THE DREAM GIRL, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: With footfall soft as angel's Last Line: Ah! Still the air is warm. Subject(s): Absence; Kisses; Love; Separation; Isolation THE DYING POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the motionless and silent grass Last Line: Falls, and I shall not see another morn. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Kisses; Life; Loss; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares; World THE EARTH MOTHER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wise old mother lets man play a while Last Line: "welcome to love, and sleep, and holiday." Subject(s): Earth; Kisses; Love; Mothers; Seasons; Soul; World THE FAIR HANDS, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Showing the whiteness of flesh faint and fair Last Line: By sordid toil, by barren tasks unhurt. Subject(s): Grief; Hands; Kisses; Sorrow; Sadness THE FIRST KISS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On helen's heart the day were night! Last Line: Young kiss of long ago! Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Beginnings THE FIRST KISS, by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If only in dreams may man be fully blest Last Line: Pass'd into spirit at the touch of hers! Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore Subject(s): Kisses THE FIRST KISS AT PARTING, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Humid seal of soft affections Last Line: So thrilling and sincere as thine! Subject(s): Farewell; Kisses; Parting THE FIRST KISS OF LOVE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away with your fictions of flimsy romance Last Line: Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Beginnings THE FIRST KISS OF SUNSHINE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The first kiss of sunshine this morning came to me Last Line: In speaking of my treasure, my little sunshine boy. Subject(s): Babies; Kisses; Sun; Infants THE GARMENT, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made a garment of kisses Last Line: Lashes the birches. Subject(s): Kisses THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 1. THE OFFERING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were beauty mine, beloved, I would bring it Last Line: And kiss the shadow of love's passing feet. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Passion THE HAUNTED HOUSE, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay beside you ... On your lips the while Last Line: I hear strange voices calling through the night. Subject(s): Beauty; Ghosts; Kisses; Love; Supernatural; Vision THE HOUSE BY THE SEA, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clock ticks on the old oak stair Last Line: Alone. . . . He understands. Subject(s): Fear; Kisses; Life; Love; Sea; Ocean THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 58. TRUE WOMAN, HER HEAVEN, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If to grow old in heaven is to grow young Last Line: To feel the first kiss and forbode the last. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Women THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 6. THE KISS, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What smouldering senses in death's sick delay Last Line: Fire within fire, desire in deity. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Kisses THE IMMORTAL RESIDUE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love and the lofty heart and tears - these three Last Line: Hold back their portion due of tears and dark. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Tears; Nightmares THE KISS, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stole into the secret room Last Line: Stood sovereign. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THE KISS, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The back twists with the kiss Subject(s): Kisses THE KISS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among thy fancies tell me this Last Line: Love honey yields, but never stings. Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Beginnings THE KISS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maid I love ne'er thought of me Last Line: Give her as sweet and pure a kiss. Variant Title(s): Sympathy [in Sorrow] Subject(s): Kisses THE KISS, by THOMAS LANSING MASSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What other men have dared, I dare' Last Line: "you may begin,"" she said." Alternate Author Name(s): Masson, Tom Subject(s): Kisses; Women THE KISS, by THOMAS MORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Give me, my love, that billing kiss Last Line: You know 'twas in the dark you taught me!' Subject(s): Kisses; Love THE KISS, by ANNA ELISABETH MATHIEU DE NOAILLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, fervent couples, in your spring flight! Last Line: Through love and death. Alternate Author Name(s): Brancovan, Princess Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love THE KISS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In arms and policy and books Last Line: The thoughts that soar 'bove kisses so! Subject(s): Kisses; Love THE KISS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heap slumber on your eyes Last Line: Tears at your heart! Subject(s): Kisses THE KISS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To these I turn, in these I trust Last Line: Quail from your downward darting kiss. Subject(s): Kisses; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE KISS, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When on thy lip my soul I breathe Last Line: Thy pity, than thy cruelty, less kind. Subject(s): Kisses THE KISS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hoped that he would love me Last Line: As all the dreams I had. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Kisses; Love THE KISS (2), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before you kissed me only winds of heaven Last Line: Where a king stood before? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Kisses THE KISS OF BETROTHAL, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When lovers' lips from kissing disunite Last Line: And each true heart beats as the other wisheth. Subject(s): Kisses THE KISS UPON THE STAIRS, by FLORENCE HAMMERSLY Poem Text First Line: Do you recall a crowded street Last Line: The kiss upon the stair? Subject(s): Kisses THE KISSES, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: When we two parted never a word was spoken. Almost we thought Last Line: How short our kisses seem! Subject(s): Absence; Kisses; Love; Separation; Isolation THE LAST ANSWER (WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She turned round to me with her steadfast eyes Last Line: But she, meanwhile, only grew statelier. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Tears; Dead, The THE LAST MAN: KISSES, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her kisses are Last Line: When heaven is brimful of starry night. Subject(s): Kisses THE LAST NIGHT OF ARTAN THE CULDEE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is but a little thing to sit here in silence and the dark Last Line: And I shall hear oona's voice as a sleeping seal hears the moving wave. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE LAST STILE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now when I came to that first stile Last Line: And spoke no word at all. Subject(s): God; Kisses; Spring THE LITTLE THINGS, by FRANCIS T. KIMBALL Poem Text First Line: Ah, how I have loved the little best things / of love Last Line: And the soft swelling of your breasts against me when I quieted you to sleep. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness THE LOOK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strephon kissed me in the spring Last Line: Haunts me night and day. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Eyes; Flirtation; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sight; Vision; Male-female Relations THE LOST KISS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I put by the half-written poem Last Line: Cry up to me over it all. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Daughters; Dreams; Kisses; Love; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares THE LOST THRILL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I grow so weary, someway, of all Last Line: A love ever poured through lips of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Complaints THE LOVE KISS OF DERMID AND GRAINNE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When by the twilit sea these twain were come Last Line: Far in a phantom dell against a phantom deer. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Animals; Death; Kisses; Love Affairs; Magic; Mythology - Celtic; Snakes; Swallows; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 23, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I could be Last Line: Dainichi to hold you / forever Subject(s): Kisses; Romance THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 34, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning, I / wake alone, dreaming my Last Line: Pressing my lips Subject(s): Desire; Kisses; Longing THE LYCHGATE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: The very type of human love it stands Last Line: And veil a fading face. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love THE MAD LOVER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes are feverish and dull Last Line: So moan yourself to death! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Kisses; Life; Love - Unrequited; Dead, The THE MAN IN WHITE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soldier, knowest thou the land Last Line: "and we shall be at home." Subject(s): Kisses; Sleep; Soldiers; Strangers; Time THE MANDOLIN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tinkle-trink, tinkle-trink, trinkle-trinkle, trink! Last Line: Trink! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Rome, Italy; Silence; Sleep; Nightmares THE MEETING, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Dawn tints the earth with rose, and all the balconies' gold palimpsest Last Line: Deck the primrose-way, if you but willed it, of our love? Subject(s): Dawn; Kisses; Love; Sunrise THE MISTAKEN MOTH, by ? WEGENER Poem Text First Line: Mid the summer flush of roses Last Line: "butterfly!" Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Kisses; Women; Bugs THE MOTHER'S MISTAKE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heard you that piercing shriek -- the throe Last Line: Outgushing tears, and gasping sobs. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Errors; Fear; Grief; Kisses; Mothers; Tears; Mistakes; Fallacies; Sorrow; Sadness THE MUSE'S WOOING, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Poet, take thy lute and kiss my mouth! Last Line: Quench my thirsty longing with thy wood! Subject(s): Desire; Kisses; Muses; Poetry & Poets THE MYSTERY, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art not dead; thou art not gone to dust Last Line: The light of mine, and give me death with thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Kisses; Time; Dead, The THE NEXT DAYS, by CHARLES RIVIERE DU FRESNY Poem Text First Line: Fair phyllis, more niggard than coy Last Line: To lizette who had started to woe him. Subject(s): Kisses; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE PARTERRE, by E. HARRIET PALMER Poem Text First Line: I don't know any greatest treat Last Line: Than every roses buttoning there. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Noses; Roses; Women THE PHANTOM KISS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night in my room, still and beamless Last Line: Thy lips, love, were laid on mine own. Subject(s): Kisses THE PICTURE OF ST. JOHN: BOOK 2. THE WOMAN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh give not beauty to an artist's eye Last Line: Might touch the lips of prayer and make them blest! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Kisses; Love; Women; Belief; Creed THE POET'S JOURNAL: ON THE HEADLAND, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit on the lonely headland Last Line: Or weep to see me dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Sea; Sea Gulls; Ocean THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE COUNT OF GLEICHEN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I read that story of the saxon knight Last Line: Is happier for thy sake! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Kisses; Knights & Knighthood; Life; Love; Tears THE POET'S JOURNAL: THIRD EVENING, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For days before, the wild-dove cooed for rain Last Line: Low harmonies to suit the varied strain. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Evening; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Nature; Sunset; Twilight THE POPE, by CHARLES JAMES LEVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pope he leads a happy life Last Line: I'll fancy then I am the pope. Subject(s): Kisses; Life; Popes; Papacy THE ROAD TO GUNDAGAI, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain road goes up and down Last Line: The lonely road to gundagai. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Australia; Kisses; Mountains; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails THE ROSE-LADY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream that you are kisses allah Last Line: For having kissed the dust beneath my feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; God; Kisses; Roses; Nightmares THE ROYAL MISCHIEF: ACT 5, SCENE 1, by DELARIVIERE MANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your orders, sir, are punctually obey'd Last Line: And embraces on every fatal piece. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Plays & Playwrights; Dead, The THE SEASONS: AUTUMN, by KALIDASA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn comes, a maiden fair Last Line: The young man's eager heart. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Passion THE SHIPFITTER'S WIFE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved him most / when he came home from work Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Marital; Women; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE SHY MAN, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The full moon was shining upon the broad sea Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 31, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: With fluttering heart she hears his courser's tread Last Line: No more thy peace shall be at thy command! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Cultural Differences THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was intoxication in the air Last Line: The world shook mystical in lambent bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Sun; Kisses THE SMACK IN SCHOOL, by WILLIAM PITT PALMER Poem Text First Line: A district school, not far away Last Line: "I thought she kind o' wished me to!" Variant Title(s): The Kiss In School;a Rousing Smack Subject(s): Children; Kisses; Schools; Women; Childhood; Students THE SNOW, by REMY DE GOURMONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Simone, white as thy throat the snow I see Last Line: My snow, simone, and all my love art thou. Subject(s): Cold; Kisses; Love; Snow THE SON, by JOACHIM GASQUET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish no more to walk the night. My heart Last Line: And to the paradise thou namest love' Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Kisses; Love; Sons THE SOUL OF A KISS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Just the breath of a kiss that passed and vanished Last Line: But my soul shall know its own. Subject(s): Kisses; Lips; Love THE STATUE TO PYGMALION, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gaze on! I thrill beneath thy gaze Last Line: Great jove! I love, and therefore live. Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Kisses; Mythology; Statues THE STORY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They met each other in the glade Last Line: Alas! Alas! For breaking hearts when lovers rove away. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Summer; Separation; Isolation THE STRAYED LOVER, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've lost the way to sylvia's heart Last Line: Then, having found it, dwell there. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Loss Of THE TEARS OF AMYNTA FOR THE DEATH OF DAMON; A SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a bank, beside a willow Last Line: Love and damon are no more. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The; Songs THE TEST, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell awhile, my bonnie darling! Last Line: "waits for the man who goes beyond!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Kisses; Love; Dead, The; Parting THE TOOTHACHE CURED BY A KISS, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fate's now grown merciful to men Last Line: As to his heaven, retir'd. Subject(s): Kisses; Teeth; Toothaches THE TYNESIDE WIDOW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's mony a man loves land and life Last Line: For my bairn and my dear and me. Subject(s): Kisses; Life; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Widows & Widowers THE UNATTAINED, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And is this life? And are we born for this? Last Line: The present can not sate nor e'er thy spirit fill. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Life; Dead, The THE WAGER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five years ago in this same garden space Last Line: Claire. Why not a woman's love? Subject(s): Gambling; Kisses; Love - Complaints; Love - Nature Of; Wagering; Betting THE WALL-FLOWER, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Text First Line: O wall-flower! Or ever thy bright leaves fade Last Line: Be its bridal torch! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Spring; Dead, The THE WATER NYMPHS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waves were plashing against the lone strand Last Line: Continue their loving kisses. Subject(s): Kisses; Knights & Knighthood; Moon; Nymphs THE WHISTLER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'you have heard,' said a youth to his sweetheart" Subject(s): Kisses;whistles & Whistling;women;youth THE WHITE POPPY, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Like a shimmering poppy, robed in white Last Line: With kisses maddening more than wine! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love THE WINTER SLEEP, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A maiden o'erwearied Last Line: Thy lover is here. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Earth; Kisses; Sleep; Spring; Winter; World THE WOOD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come with me to the mossy places Last Line: If I kissed you, the wood-gods would not tell! Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Forests; Kisses; Life; Tears; Dead, The; Nightmares; Woods THEIR SWEET SORROW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They meet to say farewell: their Last Line: Sweet as the dew's lip to the rose's. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Kisses; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness THIS IS A LOVE, by EFRAIN HUERTA Poem Source First Line: This is a love that had its beginning Last Line: And crying from love Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Loss Of THREE FATES: 2, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O masquer, are you loth love sleep Last Line: To make the bed for you. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; Destiny THREE IS A CROWD, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first sweet kiss Last Line: Come between. Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Kisses; Mobs; Crowds THREE SCORE AND TEN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Ten junes to hear the nightingale Last Line: In ten years' reckoning up, my dear! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Wedding Song; Epithalamium TIT-FOR-TAT, by ADELAIDE-GILLETTE DUFRESNOY Poem Text First Line: Phillis, a venal nymph, delayed Last Line: Gave rosalind for nought! Subject(s): Bribery; Jealousy; Kisses TO A CERTAIN GOOD GENI, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Of these, my fancies argosies Last Line: A kiss upon the lips. Subject(s): Kisses; Lips; Love TO A CERTAIN LADY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tore her scarlet gown Last Line: "in your moral modern town!" Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Life; Love; Peace; Dead, The TO A KISS, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text 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 TO ANNE, by WILLIAM MAXWELL Poem Text First Line: How many kisses do I ask? Last Line: I shall want just one kiss more. Subject(s): Kisses TO BEAUTY, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Faithful I be or not to thy soul-call Last Line: Like a sky-rover's at dawn. Subject(s): Beauty; Kisses; Love TO CASSANDRA, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mayde more tender yet Last Line: In love's sweet ecstasies. Subject(s): Kisses; Love TO DELIA: 38, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair and lovely maid, look from the shore Last Line: That thou be pleased, and I may sigh no more. Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Kisses; Love; Peace; Leander TO DIANEME (3), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me one kisse Last Line: Thousand score. Subject(s): Kisses TO ELECTRA (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dare not ask a kiss Last Line: That lately kissed thee. Subject(s): Kisses TO HATTIE - ON HER BIRTHDAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When your 'uncle jim' was Last Line: On her anniversary. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Birthdays; Kisses TO JUVENCIUS, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Juvencius, thy fair sweet eyes Last Line: The harvest of our kisses bears. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Kisses TO LOVE, by CRISTOBAL DE CASTILLEJO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love, grant me kisses beyond counting Last Line: With the list of where and when Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love TO MY BELOVED, by LOLA GREENFIELD LAWRENCE Poem Text First Line: I sang a song of love one day Last Line: Its magic is your face. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Magic TO MY DAUGHTER OLIVE, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The snow lies on the lonely hearth Last Line: Together, - you and I Subject(s): Daughters; Kisses; Singing And Singers; Snow TO MY LADY, by THOMAS ANSTEY GUTHERIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twine, lanken fingers, lily-lithe Last Line: Then -- kiss me, lady grisoline! Alternate Author Name(s): Anstey, F. Subject(s): Bodies; Kisses; Women TO THE BEES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh whither, honey-bees Last Line: My life that nourish Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Kisses; Life; Lips; Spring; Beekeeping; Bugs TO THE INVINCIBLE REPUBLIC, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: America! I have never breathed thy air Last Line: Of some vast advent that makes all things new. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): England; Kisses; Life; Soul; United States; English; America TO THE SUN SHORE (AFTER HEARING A BENGALI SONG), by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fill with the breeze of hope Last Line: Beyond, beyond the gold-cloud's bar. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love TO-DAY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun will set at day's decline Last Line: Allons! Subject(s): Kisses; Life; Love; Memory TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. ALL NIGHT LONG, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night long in love, in the darkness, passing through your lips, my love Last Line: Eyes. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Religion; Theology TRAGEDIES: 7, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: A rose-set cloud had kiss'd her cheek Last Line: And the bar of heaven closes at night. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Kisses; Lips; Night; Sun; Paradise; Bedtime TRIOLET, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: How dared he do it Last Line: To kiss those girls! Subject(s): Courtship; Fate; Kisses; Destiny TRIOLET: 1. WHAT HE SAID, by HARRISON ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: This kiss upon your fan I press Last Line: Ah! Saint nitouche, you don't refuse it. Alternate Author Name(s): Robertson, T. H. Subject(s): Courtship; Fans; Kisses TRUE HISTORY, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: All the trees around Last Line: To kiss the earth Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Memory TRUE LOVE'S TIME OF DAY, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When shall I find you, sweetheart Last Line: And you'll kiss me without reply. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Kisses; Longing; Love TRYSTING, by EDNA DENHAM RAYMOND Poem Text First Line: Oh, mystery lake, and mystery night, and tender silver stars Last Line: As I remember our trysting night when beauty and wonder stood still. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love; Togetherness TWO LIPS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I kissed them in fancy as I came Last Line: She did not know. Subject(s): Kisses UNMASKED, by FRANCES MARVEL GNASS Poem Text First Line: Yesterday you removed your mask Last Line: You wear your mask once more. Subject(s): Kisses; Masks UNREALISED, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not yet, not yet, beloved! Last Line: Forget, forget, my dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Love; Nightmares UPON LUCIA, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I askt my lucia but a kisse Last Line: Had I then askt her maidenhead? Subject(s): Kisses VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1876, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fairer than younger beauties, more beloved Last Line: Last valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Kisses; Life; Time; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1879, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother mine / whom every year Last Line: Gives you a kiss. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Kisses; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Spring VIOLET: 10. HESTERNA ROSA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a girl's fancy flutters to a man Last Line: And some sweet hours have ended with the roses? Subject(s): Farewell; Kisses; Parting VIOLET: 9. KISSES, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? Last Line: The way of my heart to the heart of my rose. Subject(s): Kisses WATER SILLIES, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: In a red canoe Last Line: Calls home his daughter. Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Kisses; Water WHAT IS MORE SACRED THAN A KISS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A kiss can be as pure, as chaste Last Line: From heaven's founts above. Subject(s): Charm; Hearts; Kisses; Love WHAT LOVE IS FOR, by PAUL CHRISTENSEN Poem Source First Line: He wants to kiss her Last Line: Eyes shut, mouths searching %for something wet to grip Subject(s): Kisses; Love WHEN MY HOT LIPS, by STEFAN GEORGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenmy hot lips are pressed against your own Last Line: We sprang together from one kingly stem. Subject(s): Kisses WHEN SHE COMES HOME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she comes home again! A thousand ways Last Line: Again is hidden in the old embrace. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Home; Kisses; Love; Tears WHERE-AWAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the lands of where-away! Last Line: Find in lands of where-away! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Fantasy; Flowers; Kisses; Childhood WHITE WOUND, by MAY MCKEE Poem Text First Line: No lesser loveliness than this Last Line: Before it slinks to startled sleep again. Subject(s): Kisses; Pain; Suffering; Misery WHITE-HANDS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O where in the north, or where in the south Last Line: O, come to me, honey-mouth! Bend to me, honey-mouth! Give me thy kiss! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Hands; Kisses; Love; Mouths; White (color) WILL, by BETTIE MARGOT CASSIE Poem Text First Line: Something I give to all my loves Last Line: But I loved silence best. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Memory; Silence; Soul WIZARD'S WELL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trudchen! Trudchen!' teased the maids Last Line: Tell me -- did that wish come true? Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Girls; Kisses; New York City - Dutch Period WORDS AND KISSES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: She pecks the earth for every second Last Line: To make birds jealous when we kiss!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love YOU ARE RIGHT NOT TO KISS ME, by A. MARY MURPHY Poem Source Last Line: A man can get lost in there Subject(s): Kisses; Mouths YOU CAN DEPART, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: You can depart. The sadness is for me. What do you care that I'm Last Line: The sea is very fair. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love YOU SLIP AWAY, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Bitter blossom of your lips Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love YOUR FECUND BREATH, by HARVEY C. GRUMBINE Poem Text First Line: A kiss that is blown to the wind, a quirk ... Last Line: Can crush the blooms that grow in me from your fecund breath. Subject(s): Breath; Kisses ZODIAC, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You kissed me once and now I wait for more Last Line: Again, I thin. I want you yo kiss me Subject(s): Kisses |
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