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Blush, happy maiden, when you feel
The lips which press love's glowing seal;
But as the slow years darklier roll,
Grown wiser, the experienced soul
Will own as dearer far than they
The lips which kiss the tears away.
Author: Elizabeth Akers Allen ("Florence Percy")
Source: Kisses
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But is there nothing else,
That we may do but only walk? Methinks
Brothers and sisters lawfully may kiss.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: A King and No King (act IV, sc. 4)
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Kiss till the cows come home.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: Scornful Lady (act II, sc. 2)
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Jenny, she's aw weet, peer body,
Jenny's like to cry;
For she hes weet her petticoats
In gangin' thro' the rye,
Peer body.
Author: Miss Susanna Blamire and Miss Catherine Gilpin
Source: said to be their joint production, before 1794
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Remember the Viper:--'twas close at your feet,
How you started and threw yourself into my arms;
Not a strawberry there was so ripe nor so sweet
As the lips which I kiss'd to subdue your alarms.
Author: Robert Bloomfield
Source: Nancy (st. 4)
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. . . And when my lips meet thine
Thy very soul is wedded unto mine.
Author: Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
Source: Thy Gracious Face I Greet with Glad Surprise
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Thy lips which spake wrong counsel, I kiss close.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Drama of Exile (sc. Farther on, etc., l. 992)
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I was betrothed that day;
I wore a troth kiss on my lips I could not give away.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Lay of the Brown Rosary (pt. II)
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First time he kiss'd me, he but only kiss'd
The fingers of this hand wherewith I write;
And ever since it grew more clean and white.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese (sonnet XXXVIII)
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Something made of nothing, tasting very sweet,
A most delicious compound, with ingredients complete;
But if as on occasion the heart and mind are sour,
It has no great significance, it loses half its power.
Author: Mary E. Buell
Source: The Kiss
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Comin' through the rye, poor body,
Comin' through the rye,
She draigl't a' her petticoatie,
Comin' through the rye
. . . .
Gin a body meet a body
Comin' through the rye,
Gin a body kiss a body
Need a body cry?
Author: Robert Burns
Source: The Bob-tailed Lass, taken from an old song
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Come, lay thy head upon my breast,
And I will kiss thee into rest.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: The Bride of Abydos (canto I, st. 11)
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A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 186)
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When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past--
For years fleet away with the wings of the dove--
The dearest remembrance will still be the last,
Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: The First Kill of Love (st. 7)
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Kisses kept are wasted;
Love is to be tasted.
There are some you love, I know;
Be not loath to tell them so.
Lips go dry and eyes grow wet
Waiting to be warmly met,
Keep them not in waiting yet;
Kisses kept are wasted.
Author: Edmund Vance Cooke
Source: Kisses Kept Are Wasted
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If a body meet a body going to the Fair,
If a body kiss a body need a body care?
Author: James C. Cross
Source: written for the pantomime "Harlequin Mariner"
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Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part.
Author: Michael Drayton
Source: Sonnet
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Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is
simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Author: Michael Drayton
Source: Sonnet
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Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. III, l. 251 from end of bk.)
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It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal.
Author: Margaret W. Fuller
Source: Dryad Song
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The kiss you take is paid by that you give:
The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt.
Author: George Granville, Lord Landsdowne
Source: Heroic Love (act V, sc. 1)
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Tell me who first did kisses suggest?
It was a mouth all glowing and blest;
It kissed and it thought of nothing beside.
The fair month of May was then in its pride,
The flowers were all from the earth fast springing,
The sun was laughing, the birds were singing.
Author: Heinrich Heine
Source: Book of Songs--New Spring--Prologue (no. 25, st. 2)
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What is a kisse? Why this, as some approve:
The sure sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
Author: Robert Herrick
Source: Hesperides--A Kiss
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Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;
Then to that twenty, adde 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 kisse afresh, as when we first begun.
Author: Robert Herrick
Source: Hesperides--To Anthea
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Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,--
A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake
The angel for the woman in a kiss,
At once I wis,
My soul will wake!
Author: Victor Hugo
Source: Come When I Sleep
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Kisses: Words which cannot be written.
Author: Nicole Louise Divino
Source: None
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I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth.
Author: Chico Maroc
Source: None
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Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.
Author: Eve Glicksman
Source: None
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A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point.
Author: Mistinguett
Source: None
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I'd walk half way around the world... for just one kiss from you...
Author: Backstreet Boys
Source: None
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The sound of a kiss is much softer than that of a cannon - but it's echo lasts a great deal longer.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Love and electricity are one in the same, my dear.... if you do not feel the jolt in your soul every time a kiss is shared, a whisper is spoken, a touch is felt, then you're not really in love at all....
Author: C. J. Franks
Source: None
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Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.
Author: William Raye
Source: None
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By starlight, I'll kiss you, and promise to be your one and only. I'll make you feel happy and leave you to be lost in mine.
Author: Billy Corgan
Source: None
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I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes. And I'll always need her more than she could ever need me. I need someone to ease my mind, but sometimes a someone is so hard to find.
Author: Billy Corgan
Source: None
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And Steal immortal blessings from her lips; who,even in pure and vestal modesty, still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.
Author: Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
Source: None
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When I kiss you, it tastes like heaven... so sweet, loving, kind, and caring.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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You may conquer with a sword but you are conquered by a kiss.
Author: Daniel Heinsius
Source: None
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People who throw kisses are mighty, hopelessly lazy.
Author: Bob Hope
Source: None
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Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
Author: Percy Shelley
Source: None
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Few men know how to kiss well. Fortunately, I've always had time to teach them.
Author: Mae West
Source: None
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A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one.
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Source: None
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