The literature of kissing

by Charles C. Bombaugh

So many kisses from the vanquished side

The victor claims, so many ways applied.”

KISS XI.

Some think my kisses too luxurious told,

Kisses, they say, not known to sires of old:

But, while entranced on thy soft neck I lie,

And o’er thy lips in tender transport die,

Shall I then ask, dear life, perplexed in vain,

Why rigid cynics censure thus my strain?