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KISSES DESIRED by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN

Poet Analysis

First Line: THOUGH I WITH STRANGE DESIRE
Last Line: AFTER ONE KISS, BUT STILL ONE KISS, MY DEAR.
Subject(s): KISSES; LOVE;
Though I with strange desire
To kiss those rosy lips am set on fire,
Yet will I cease to crave
Sweet touches in such store,
As he who long before
From Lesbia them in thousands did receive.
Heart mine, but once me kiss,
And I by that sweet bliss
Even swear to cease you to importune more;
Poor one no number is;
Another word of me ye shall not hear
After one kiss, but still one kiss, my dear.



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