kiss

~* I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free *~ !*!* Kiss mE !*!*!

I dare not ask a kiss; I dare not beg a smile; Lest having that or this, I might grow proud the while.

No, no, the utmost share Of my desire shall be Only to kiss that air, That lately kissed thee.

Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies! Come Helen, come give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena. -- Christopher Marlowe

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. -- Edmond Rostand

I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation. -- William Shakespeare ---Henry IV

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. -- William Shakespeare ---Richard III

... a wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss, -- Percy Bysshe Shelley ---The Revolt of Islam

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. -- Jonathan Swift ---Dialogue ii.

O love! O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew. -- Alfred Tennyson ---Fatima. Stanza 3

A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this, To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips. -- Alfred Tennyson ---Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. --Oliver Wendell Holmes

I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun. --William Butler Yeats ---The Song of Wandering Aengus

When I was a young man and never been kissed I got to thinking over what I had missed Got me a girl and I kissed her and then Oh, Lord, I kissed her again Oh..... kisses sweeter than wine Oh..... kisses sweeter than wine --The Weavers ---From their song Kisses Sweeter Than Wine

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. --Rupert Brooke

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. --Victor Hugo