The literature of kissing

by Charles C. Bombaugh

From her ripe lips, which seemed to thrill

As in the war of kisses still,

And amorous to each other clung,

He stole the dew that trembling hung,

And smiling said, “With this, with this

I’ll bathe my Julia’s burning kiss!”

Moore.

TO A LADY ON HER TRANSLATION OF VOITURE’S “KISS.”