Poem by Coventry Patmore

The Kiss

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

1. Deliciae Sapientiae de Amore
2. The Married Lover
3. Faint Yet Pursuing
4. Olympus
5. The Revelation

Dora Greenwell The Kiss ("I come to thee from one")

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