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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SIDNEY'S ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: CANTO TERTIO. KISSES, by THOMAS CAMPION Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love bound me with a kiss Last Line: Kisses make men loath to go. Subject(s): Kisses | |||
My love bound me with a kiss That I should no longer stay; When I felt so sweet a bliss I had less power to part away: Alas! that woman doth not know Kisses make men loath to go. Yet she knows it but too well, For I heard when Venus' dove In her ear did softly tell That kisses were the seals of love: O muse not then though it be so; Kisses make men loath to go. Wherefore did she thus inflame My desires, heat my blood, Instantly to quench the same, And starve whom she had given food? I the common sense can show; Kisses make men loath to go. Had she bid me go at first It would ne'er have grieved my heart, Hope delayed had been the worst; But ah! to kiss and then to part! How deep it struck, speak, gods, you know Kisses make men loath to go. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHAMBER MUSIC: 31 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 34 by JAMES JOYCE KISSING AGAIN by DORIANNE LAUX PROMISES, PROMISES by PAUL MULDOON THE CITY OF THE OLESHA FRUIT by NORMAN DUBIE PENDULUM by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 9 by THOMAS CAMPION |
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