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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.'



Coventry Patmore


Coventry Patmore's other poems:
  1. A Retrospect
  2. Stars and Moon
  3. Magna Est Veritas
  4. The Wedding Sermon
  5. The Barren Shore


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Edith Nesbit The Kiss ("The snow is white on wood and wold")
  • Dora Greenwell The Kiss ("I come to thee from one")

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