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Poem by Coventry Patmore


The Kiss


'I saw you take his kiss!' ''Tis true.'
'O, modesty!' ' 'Twas strictly kept:
He thought me asleep; at least I knew
He thought I thought he thought I slept.'



Coventry Patmore


Coventry Patmore's other poems:
  1. The Rosy Bosom’d Hours
  2. Semele
  3. Unthrift
  4. The Barren Shore
  5. If I Were Dead


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Edith Nesbit The Kiss ("The snow is white on wood and wold")
  • Sara Teasdale The Kiss ("I HOPED that he would love me")

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