I. O BLUSH not so! O blush not so! Or I shall think you knowing; And if you smile the blushing while, Then maidenheads are going. II. There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, And a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, And a blush for just begun it. III. O sigh not so! O sigh not so! For it sounds of Eve's sweet pippin; By these loosen'd lips you have tasted the pips And fought in an amorous nipping. IV. Will you play once more at nice-cut-core, For it only will last our youth out, And we have the prime of the kissing time, We have not one sweet tooth out. V. There's a sigh for yes, and a sigh for no, And a sigh for I can't bear it! O what can be done, shall we stay or run? O cut the sweet apple and share it! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CAVALIER TUNES: GIVE A ROUSE THEN FOR THE CLINIC by ROBERT BROWNING WE PARTED IN SILENCE by JULIA CRAWFORD RIVALRY IN LOVE by WILLIAM WALSH (1663-1707) TO CYNTHIA GONE INTO THE COUNTRY by PHILIP AYRES SONG OF SOLOMON 2: 10-13. SPRING by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE NETTED STRAWBERRIES by GORDON BOTTOMLEY EPISTLE FROM ONE ABSENT EDITOR TO ANOTHER by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD THE SWEET BRIER by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 5 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |