KISS! Hollyhock in Love's luxuriant close! Brisk music played on pearly little keys, In tempo with the witching melodies Love in the ardent heart repeating goes. Sonorous, graceful Kiss, hail! Kiss divine! Unequalled boon, unutterable bliss! Man, bent o'er thine enthralling chalice, Kiss, Grows drunken with a rapture only thine! Thou comfortest as music does, and wine, And grief dies smothered in thy purple fold. Let one greater than I, Kiss, and more bold, Rear thee a classic, monumental line. Humble Parisian bard, this infantile Bouquet of rhymes I tender half in fear .... Be gracious, and in guerdon, on the dear Red lips of One I know, a light and smile! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RIVALS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON ON A VOLUME OF SCHOLASTIC PHILOSOPHY by GEORGE SANTAYANA SOLOMON TO SHEBA by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS GOD EVERYWHERE by ABRAHAM IBN EZRA A PREPARATORY HYMNE TO THE WEEK OF MEDITACIONS UPON, & DEVOUT EXERCISE by JOSEPH BEAUMONT AN ELECTION BALLAD by ROBERT BURNS |