The blossom of love. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]
Love's great artillery. [ Crashaw ]
The trickling rain doth fall
Upon us one and all;
The south-wind kisses
The saucy milk-maid's cheek.
The nun's, demure and meek,
Nor any misses. [ E. C. Stedman ]
With this kiss take my blessing
God protect thee! [ William Shakespeare ]
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine. [ Ben Jonson ]
Kisses are the messengers of love. [ Martin Opitz ]
And when my lips meet thine
Thy very soul is wedded unto mine. [ H. H. Boyesen ]
Stolen kisses are always sweetest. [ Leigh Hunt ]
Come, lay thy head upon my breast,
And I will kiss thee unto rest. [ Byron ]
More than kisses, letters mingle souls. [ Donne ]
Eden revives in the first kiss of love. [ Byron ]
It lifts the boughs, whose shadows deep,
Are life's oblivion, the soul's sleep,
And kisses the closed eyes
Of him who slumbering lies. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]
A kiss from my mother made me a painter. [ Benjamin West ]
Sweetest memorial, the first kiss of love. [ Byron ]
Leap hearts to lips, and in our kisses meet. [ John Fletcher ]
A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love. [ Byron ]
And steal immortal kisses from her lips;
Which even in pure and vestal modesty.
Still blush as thinking their own kisses sin. [ William Shakespeare ]
Morn on the mountain, like a summer bird.
Lifts up her purple wing, and in the vales
The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer,
Kisses the blushing leaf. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Sleep, the fresh dew of languid love, the rain
Whose drops quench kisses till they burn again. [ Shelley ]
Kiss
rhymes to bliss
in fact, as well as verse. [ Byron ]
I dreamt my lady came and found me dead.
(Strange dream! that gives a dead man leave to think)
And breath'd such life with kisses in my lips
That I reviv'd, and was an emperor. [ William Shakespeare ]
Our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips. [ Tennyson ]
Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. [ Swift ]
As in the soft and sweet eclipse, when soul meets soul on lovers' lips. [ Shelley ]
God created in our misery the kisses of children for the tears of mothers. [ E. Legouve ]
He that kisses his wife in the market-place shall have enough to teach him. [ Proverb ]
God pardons like a mother who kisses away the repentant tears of her child. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Upon thy cheek lay I this zealous kiss, as seal to the indenture of my love. [ William Shakespeare ]
Once more for pity, that I may keep the flavor upon my lips till we meet again. [ Dryden ]
God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
You cannot analyze a kiss any more than you can dissect the fragrance of flowers. [ H. W. Shaw ]
The fragrant infancy of opening flowers flowed to my senses in that melting kiss. [ Southern ]
Oh! let me live forever on those lips! The nectar of the gods to these is tasteless. [ Dryden ]
Then kissed me hard, as if he plucked up kisses by the roots, that grew upon my lips. [ William Shakespeare ]
The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt. [ Lord Lansdowne ]
I clasp thy waist, I feel thy bosom's beat - oh, kiss me into faintness sweet and dim! [ Alexander Smith ]
Teach not thy lip such scorn; for it was made for kissing, lady, not for such contempt. [ William Shakespeare ]
In this state she gallops, night by night, over ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream. [ William Shakespeare ]
Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love today, than the felicities of heaven afar off. [ Bovee ]
O Love! when thou findest thy true apostles on earth united in kisses, thou commandest their eyelids to close like veils, that they may not see their happiness! [ A. de Musset ]
See a fond mother encircled by her children; with pious tenderness she looks around, and her soul even melts with maternal love. One she kisses on its cheeks, and clasps another to her bosom; one she sets upon her knee, and finds a seat upon her foot for another. And while, by their actions, by their lisping words, and asking eyes, she understands their numberless little wishes, to these she dispenses a look, and a word to those; and whether she grants or refuses, whether she smiles or frowns, it is all in tender love. [ Krummacher ]