The literature of kissing

by Charles C. Bombaugh

[33] This riddle was originally published in the “Gentleman’s Magazine.” A correspondent furnished the following answer:

“A riddle by Cowper

Made me swear like a trooper;

But my anger, alas! was in vain;

For, remembering the bliss

Of beauty’s soft kiss,

I now long for such riddles again.”

INDEX.

• The Kiss in History.
• Diversities in the Bible, [10].
• Freaks and Phases of Local Custom, [56].
• Arabian Salutation, [78].
• Blarney Stone, [68].
• Custom of Kissing Hands, [61].
• Dangerous Game, [89].
• Detective Utility, [92].
• French Cheapening and Degeneracy, [74].
• Husking-Frolics, [83].
• Kiss for a Vote, [73].
• Kiss-me-quick, [83].
• Kiss of Peace, [56].
• Kissing Dances, [74].
• Kissing Hands in Austria, [76].
• Kissing in China, [80].
• Kissing the Pope’s Toe, [70].
• Latter-day Kiss of Peace, [91].
• National Differences, [92].
• New-Year’s Day in New Amsterdam, [81].
• New York Drummer’s Predicament, [88].
• Old Roman Code, [79].
• Paraguayan Compulsion, [87].
• Pompeian Tokens, [77].
• Question of Taste, [90].
• Royal Feet-Washing and Kissing, [58].
• Taking Toll at the Bridge, [84].
• Templar Interdiction, [77].
• Under the Mistletoe, [63].
• Wedding Ceremony in Turkey, [79].
• Kiss Imprimis, [9].
• Memorable Kisses, [41].
• Significance among the Hebrews, [9].
• Traces in English History, [33].
• The Kiss in Poetry.
• Anacreontic, [100].
• Blooming Nelly, [101].
• Bonnie Peggy Alison, [103].
• Cock and Fox, [99].
• Consecration, [115].
• Dinna kiss afore Folk, [104].
• Dinner and a Kiss, [112].
• Don Juan and Haidee, [104].
• First Kiss of Love, [105].
• Five Twices, [126].
• Give me Kisses, [111].
• Glove, The, [95].
• Hint, A, [113].
• How it happened, [118].
• In Ambush, [119].
• Ines sent a Kiss to me, [97].
• Julia’s Kiss, [107].
• Kiss, A, [126].
• Kiss at the Door, [125].
• Kiss, The, [95].
• Kiss, The, [108].
• Kiss, The, A Dialogue, [93].
• Kisses, [110].
• Kisses To-Day, [114].
• Landlady’s Daughter, [101].
• Long Branch Episode, [120].
• Nursery Rhymes, [128].
• Parting Kiss, The, [96].
• Platonic Kisses, [116].
• Rhapsodies, [130].
• Siren’s Song, [94].
• Sonnet upon a Stolen Kiss, [93].
• Teacher and Pupil, [106].
• Thine at Last, [106].
• Three Kisses, [121].
• Throwing Kisses, [114].
• To a Child embracing his Mother, [109].
• To a Lady on her translation of Voiture’s Kiss, [108].
• To Charis, [96].
• To my Love, [112].
• Too Old for Kisses, [123].
• Under the Rose, [115].
• Wandering Knight’s Song, [98].
• Wedding Song, [124].
• Yielding to Temptation, [97].
• Basia of Johannes Secundus, [170].
• Excerpts from the Poets, [132].
• Extracts from the Old Ballads, [153].
• Humors of Verse, [158].
• Ancient Spanish Lyric, [168].
• Auld Wifie, [160].
• Ballad of the Oysterman, [167].
• Beware of Paint, [164].
• Broken Pitcher, [168].
• Caprice, [161].
• Carlo and Sally, [161].
• Dance about the May-pole, [159].
• Delia’s Handkerchief, [162].
• Dumbarton’s Drums, [163].
• Kissing no Sin, [160].
• Kissing the Rod, [162].
• King Keder, [161].
• Mock Heroics, [158].
• Noses, [164].
• On refusing Angeline a Kiss, [158].
• Publican’s Daughter, [162].
• Robin Goodfellow, [163].
• Shadows, The, [165].
• Smack in School, [166].
• Souter and his Sow, [160].
• The Kiss in Dramatic Literature.
• Selections from Shakspeare, [191].
• Alfieri, [221].
• Beaumont and Fletcher, [212].
• Ben Jonson, [209].
• Browning, Mrs., [223].
• Bulwer-Lytton, [221].
• Dryden, [219].
• Ford, [217].
• Goethe, [221].
• Goldsmith, [219].
• Heywood, [218].
• Knowles, [220].
• Lansdowne, [219].
• Lilly, [214].
• Longfellow, [221].
• Marlowe, [215].
• Marston, [215].
• Massinger, [216].
• Mitford, [223].
• Otway, [219].
• Procter, [223].
• Schiller, [220].
• Shirley, [218]
• Talfourd, [222].
• Tennyson, [224].
• The Kiss in Fiction.
• Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Novels, [225].
• Selections from Richardson, Mrs. Behn, Jane Porter, Thackeray, Dickens, Victor Hugo, Reade, Mühlbach, W. Scott, Hawthorne, Kingsley, Zchokke, Brontë, Disraeli, Bulwer-Lytton, Warren, and others, [225].
• The Kiss in Humorous Story and Anecdote.
• All-embracing Inclusion, [295].
• Amorous Western Youth, [281].
• Awakening, The, [291].
• Baffled Courtier, [286].
• Clergyman’s Joke, A, [288].
• Early Discrimination, [285].
• Father Tom and the Pope, [273].
• First Kiss, The, [293].
• Jean Paul’s Schoolboy Experience, [292].
• Kissing the Feet, [294].
• Kiss in the Dark, [296].
• Let me Kiss him for his Mother, [290].
• Love in a Street-Car, [282].
• Student of Upsala, [276].
• Sudden Attachment, [284].
• Taking Toll, [283].
• Thankful Spirit, A, [287].
• Tunnel Stories, [278].
• Budget of Facetiæ, [299].
• Prenticeana, [318].
• Miscellaneous Aspects and Relations.
• Qualitative Analysis, [321].
• Composition of a Kiss, [324].
• Philosophy of Kissing, [322].
• Science of Kissing, [322].
• Sound of a Kiss, [324].
• The Dangerous Side, [326].
• Legal View, [326].
• Medical View, [331].
• The Sorrowful Side, [339].
• After the Ball, [341].
• After the Wedding, [342].
• Barbara, [351].
• Chevy-Chase, [345].
• Consumption, [351].
• Death of an Infant, [350].
• Death of a Friend’s Child, [351].
• Dying Injunction, [347].
• Earl March’s Daughter, [346].
• Enoch Arden, [349].
• Evangeline, [350].
• Exiles, The, [348].
• Faithful unto Death, [347].
• Highland Mary, [351].
• I want to find my Papa, [352].
• Jephthah’s Daughter, [349].
• King of France’s Daughter, [346].
• Last Observance, [348].
• Margaret, [339].
• Œnone, [349].
• Old Love, The, [345].
• Orate hic pro me, [348].
• Over the Starry Way, [350].
• Penalty of Harshness, [353].
• Quarrel and Reconciliation, [350].
• Virginia, [353].
• Welcome Home, [341].
• The Treacherous Side, [333]
• Algerine Revenge, [335].
• All for Show, [336].
• Artifice, [339].
• Conspiracy against Edward II., [338].
• Cupid’s Wiles, [339].
• Descent from the Tree, [337].
• Fabulla, [336].
• False Lady, [337].
• Gay Deceiver, [338].
• Judas Kiss, [334].
• Kiss Fuliginous, [336].
• Lady Bothwell’s Lament, [338].
• Lures of the Enchantress, [339].
• Madame de Staël’s Hypocrisy, [333].
• Perjury, [338].
• Wife’s Infidelity, [334].
• Woman, [337].
• The Kiss in Enigma, [373].
• The Kiss in Epigram, [356].
• Ancient Maiden’s Lament, [358].
• Bianca’s Dream, [360].
• Casuistry, [356].
• Declining a Kiss, [359].
• Difference, The, [356].
• Difference, The, [362].
• Disappointment, The, [359].
• Earliest Recollection, [359].
• Foolish Robin, [357].
• Forgiveness, [363].
• Honey-Moon, The, [361].
• Inventor of Kissing, [363].
• Lady Stung by a Bee, [364].
• Modesty, [356].
• Moustaches, [358].
• No Doubt of It, [361].
• Non-Computation, [360].
• Painted Lady in Olden Time, [364].
• Printer’s Kisses, [357].
• Reason Why, [362].
• Rebus, A, [361].
• Rights of Men, [363].
• Sealing an Oath, [358].
• Source of Life and Death, [364].
• Stakes, The, [358].
• Stolen Kisses, [362].
• Tulips and Roses, [357].
• The Kiss in Metaphor, [365].
• Autumn, [366].
• Crimson Sunset, [367].
• Evening Wind, [366].
• From Anacreon, [369].
• From Philaster, [371].
• From Plato, [370].
• From The Dying Soldier, [371].
• From The Lover’s Creed, [370].
• From The Psalms, [368].
• From The Traitor, [371].
• Gentlest of My Friends, [371].
• Growing Corn, [368].
• Light from the Tomb, [367].
• Light-house, The, [368].
• Love’s Philosophy, [369].
• Mary in Heaven, [372].
• Moon-beam, The, [367].
• Morning Song, [365].
• Nature’s Ministrations, [370].
• Paraphrase, [368].
• Parting, The, [372].
• Poet’s Food, [372].
• Queen Guinevere, [372].
• Released Captive, [371].
• Sleep, [372].
• Spring, [365].
• Spring Flowers, [365].
• Spring Song, [366].
• Sunrise on the Hills, [365].
• Time and Tide, [367].
• To Celia, [369].
• Violets, The, [366].
• The Kiss in Proverbs, [375].
• Gems of Thought, [376].