Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra
and then suddenly it flips over,
pinning you underneath.
At night, the ice weasels come.
Matt Groenig


A man snatches the first kiss,
pleads for the second,
demands the third,
takes the fourth,
accepts the fifth,
and endures all the rest.
Helen Rowland


I hope that he would love me more,
And he has kissed my mouth
But I am like a stricken bird
That cannot reach the south.
For thought I know he loves me,
Tonight my heart is sad;
His kiss was not so wonderful
As all the dreams I had.
Sara Teasdale


Come kiss me love, before you leave me
Come kiss the one you have betrayed
And when I'm dead, love, come and see me
And throw sweet flowers upon my grave

Once I loved you with all my heart and soul
I thought your love was all for me
Many's the night with you I've rambled
Many's the night with you I've lain
Thinking your love was mine forever
And now I find it was all in vain.
Anonymous


"I saw you take his kiss!"
"O, modesty!" "Twas strictly kept:
He thought me asleep; at least I knew
He thought I thought he thought I slept."
Coventry Patmore


Now gentle sleep hath closed up those eyes
Which, waking, kept my boldest thoughts in awe;
And free access unto thy sweet lips lies,
From whence I long the rosy breath to draw.

Methinks not wrong it were, if I should steal
From those two melting rubies one kiss;
None sees the theft that would the theft reveal,
Nor rob I her of aught that she can miss;

Nay should I twenty kisses take away,
There would be little sign I would do so;
Why then ashould I this robbery delay?
O, she may wake, and therewith angry growl!
Well, if she do, I'll back restore that one,
And twenty hundred thousand more for loan!
George Wither


It is the passion that is in a kiss
that gives to it its sweetness;
it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Christian Nestell Bovee


The earth awhirl, Sweetheart, I wander far
Adown the crowded street,
Upon my burning lips
The clinging kiss.

A thousand years
May sear this life of mine,
But in my memory
I hold one treasure dear,
The clinging kiss.

A thousand caravans
May bear a wealth untold,
The stones of India
Will pale beside my gem,
The clinging kiss.

O wonderous love,
That burns to ash my heart,
Give back to me that hour
She placed upon my lips
The clinging kiss.
Fenton Johnson


What my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning; but the rain
Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh
Upon the glass and listen for reply,
And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain
For unremembered lads that not again
Will turn to me at midnight with a cry.
Thus in winter stands the lonely tree,
Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,
Yet knows its bough more silent than before:
I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
Edna St. Vincent Millay


O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes
The poets labouring all their days
To build a perfect beauty in rhyme
Are overthrown by a womans's gaze
And by the unlabouring brood of the skies:
And therefore my heart will bow, when dew
Is dropping sleep, until God burn time,
Before the unlaboring stars and you.
William Butler Yeats


O gather me the rose, the rose,
While yet in flower we find it,
For summer smiles, but summer goes,
And winter waits behind it.
For with the dream foregone, foregone,
The deed foreborn forever,
The worm Regret will canker on,
and time will turn him never.

So were it well to love, my love,
And cheat of any laughter
The fate beneath us, and above,
The dark before and after.
The myrtle and the rose, the rose,
The sunshine and the swallow,
The dream that comes, the wish that goes
The memories that follow!
William Ernest Henley


I love you soulfully and bodyfully,
properly and improperly, every way
a woman can be loved.
- George Bernard Shaw


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