Kissing

"A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love."

"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."

"If a body meet a body going to the Fair, If a body kiss a body need a body care?"

"Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part."

"Kisses honeyed by oblivion."

"The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt."

"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."

"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!"

"Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in. Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me; Say I'm growing old, but add Jenny kissed me."

"Drink to me only with thine eyes And I'll not ask for wine Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I will pledge with mine."

"A soft lip, Would tempt you to eternity of kissing!"

"Favouritism governed kissage, Even as it does in this age."

"My lips the sextons are Of thy slain kisses."

"When she kissed me once in play, Rubies were less bright than they; And less bright were those which shone In the palace of the Sun. Will they be as bright again? Not if kiss'd by other men."

"What is a kiss? Alacke! at worst, A single Dropp to quenche a Thirst, Tho' oft it prooves, in happie Hour, The first swete Dropp of our long Showre."

"Says he—"I'd better call agin;" Says she—"Think likely, Mister!" Thet last word pricked him like a pin, An'—Wal, he up an' kist her."

"The kiss, in which he half forgets even such a yoke as yours."

"Why do I not kiss you, Philænis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philænis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philænis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philænis, sins against nature."

"I throw a kiss across the sea, I drink the winds as drinking wine, And dream they all are blown from thee, I catch the whisper'd kiss of thine."

"I rest content; I kiss your eyes, I kiss your hair in my delight: I kiss my hand and say "Good-night.""

"One kiss the maiden gives, one last, Long kiss, which she expires in giving."

"Kiss—kiss—thou hast won me, Bright, beautiful sin."

"How should great Jove himself do else than miss To win the woman he forgets to kiss."

"Drink to me with thine eyes alone; or if thou wilt, having put it to thy lips, fill the cup with kisses, and so give it me."

"A kiss, when all is said, what is it? … a rosy dot Placed on the "i" in loving; 'tis a secret Told to the mouth instead of to the ear."

"Young gentlemen, pray recollect, if you please, Not to make appointments near mulberry trees. Should your mistress be missing, it shows a weak head To be stabbing yourself, till you know she is dead. Young ladies, you should not go strolling about When your ancient mammas don't know you are out; And remember that accidents often befall From kissing young fellows through holes in the wall!"

"Give me kisses! Nay, 'tis true I am just as rich as you; And for every kiss I owe, I can pay you back, you know. Kiss me, then, Every moment—and again."

"Thou knowest the maiden who ventures to kiss a sleeping man, wins of him a pair of gloves."

"Yet whoop, Jack! kiss Gillian the quicker, Till she bloom like a rose, and a fig for the vicar!"

"Strangers and foes do sunder, and not kiss."

"We have kiss'd away Kingdoms and provinces."

"And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch of holy bread."

"O, a kiss, Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge! Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss I carried from thee, dear."

"Or ere I could Give him that parting kiss, which I had set Betwixt two charming words, comes in my father And like the tyrannous breathing of the north Shakes all our buds from growing."

"I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation."

"It is not a fashion for the maids in France to kiss before they are married."

"Take, O take those lips away, That so sweetly were foresworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, Seals of love, but sealed in vain."

"But, thou know'st this, 'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss."

"Teach not thy lips such scorn; for they were made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt."

"Their lips were four red roses on a stalk, Which in their summer beauty kiss'd each other."

"And steal immortal blessing from her lips; Who, even in pure and vestal modesty, Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin."

"And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, “Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely.” And as soon as he was come, he goeth straightway to him, and saith, “Master, master”, and kissed him."

"I'll take that winter from your lips."

"Why, then we'll make exchange; here, take you this, And seal the bargain with a holy kiss."

"Kissing with inside lip? stopping the career Of laughter with a sigh?"

"Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may live; And in my heartless breast and burning brain That word, that kiss shall all thoughts else survive, With food of saddest memory kept alive."

"As in the soft and sweet eclipse, When soul meets soul on lover's lips."

"My lips till then had only known The kiss of mother and of sister, But somehow, full upon her own Sweet, rosy, darling mouth,—I kissed her."

"My love and I for kisses played; She would keep stakes: I was content; But when I won she would be paid; This made me ask her what she meant. Pray, since I see (quoth she) "your wrangling vain, Take your own kisses; give me mine again.""

"Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing."