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...LOVE IN TWILIGHT by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET THE CHANGED WOMAN by LOUISE BOGAN STREET-CRIES: 7. A SONG OF LOVE by SIDNEY LANIER SURFACES AND MASKS; 2 by CLARENCE MAJOR BROTHERHOOD (2) by EDWIN MARKHAM BOYHOOD FRIENDS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |