Kisses

Here's to a kiss:
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss add a score,
Then to that twenty add a hundred more;
A thousand to that hundred, and so kiss on,
To make that thousand quite a million,
Treble that million, and when that is done
Let's kiss afresh as though we'd just begun.

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Rewards

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCXXI. Jingles.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCLXI. Paradoxes.

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Nursery Rhyme. XCVII. Proverbs.

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Here's to the red of the holly berry,
    And to its leaf so green;
And here's to the lips that are just as red,
    And the fellow who's not so green.

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To Anthea.

Ah, my Anthea! Must my heart still break?
(Love makes me write, what shame forbids to speak.)
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score;
Then to that twenty add a hundred more:
A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on,
To make that thousand up a million.
Treble that million, and when that is done
Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
But yet, though love likes well such scenes as these,
There is an act that will more fully please:
Kissing and glancing, soothing, all make way
But to the acting of this private play:
Name it I would; but, being blushing red,
The rest I'll speak when we meet both in bed.

Robert Herrick

Kisses

There was an old maiden from Fife,
Who had never been kissed in her life;
    Along came a cat;
    And she said, "I'll kiss that!"
But the cat answered, "Not on your life!"

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Kisses

There once was a maiden of Siam,
Who said to her lover, young Kiam,
    "If you kiss me, of course
    You will have to use force,
But God knows you're stronger than I am."

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To The Same

Kisse mee, Sweet: The wary lover
Can your favours keepe, and cover,
When the common courting jay
All your bounties will betray.
Kisse againe: no creature comes.
Kisse, and score up wealthy summes
On my lips, thus hardly sundred,
While you breathe. First give a hundred,
Then a thousand, then another
Hundred, then unto the tother
Adde a thousand, and so more:
Till you equall with the store,
All the grasse that Rumney yeelds,
Or the sands in Chelsey fields,
Or the drops in silver Thames,
Or the stars, that guild his streames,
In the silent sommer-nights,
When youths ply their stoln delights.
That the curious may not know
How to tell 'hem as they flow,
And the envious, when they find
What their number is, be pin'd.

Ben Jonson

To Dianeme

Give me one kiss,
And no more:
If so be, this
Makes you poor
To enrich you,
I'll restore
For that one, two-
Thousand score.

Robert Herrick