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Give me the food that satisfies a guest:Kisses are but dry banquets to a feast.
Robert Herrick
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Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is known for his book of poems, "Hesperides," which includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." His works are noted for their clarity, simplicity, and musical quality. Herrick was also a vicar of Dean Prior in Devon, despite being ejected during the English Civil War and later reinstated.
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Treason.
Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry
God's Keys
Evil.
Upon Julia's Voice.
Kisses Loathsome.
I abhor the slimy kiss,Which to me most loathsome is.Those lips please me which are placedClose, but not too strictly laced:Yielding I would have them; yetNot a wimbling tongue admit:What should poking-sticks make there,When the ruffe is set elswhere?
To Dianeme
Give me one kiss,And no more:If so be, thisMakes you poorTo enrich you,I'll restoreFor that one, two-Thousand score.
A Kiss.
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve:The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
Tears.
God from our eyes all tears hereafter wipes,And gives His children kisses then, not stripes.
The Kiss: A Dialogue
Among thy fancies, tell me this,What is the thing we call a kiss?I shall resolve ye what it is:It is a creature born and bredBetween the lips, all cherry-red,By love and warm desires fed,CHOR.And makes more soft the bridal bed.It is an active flame, that fliesFirst to the babies of the eyes,And charms them there with lullabies,CHOR.And stills the bride, too, when she cries.Then to the chin, the cheek, the ear,It frisks and flies, now here, now there:'Tis now far off, and then 'tis near,CHOR.And here, and there, and every where.Has it a speaking virtue?Yes.How speaks it, say?Do you but this,Part your join'd lips, then speaks your kiss;CHOR.And this Love's sweetest language is.Has it a body?Ay, and wings,...
Kissing And Bussing.
Kissing and bussing differ both in this;We buss our wantons, but our wives we kiss.