Love
Upon a Kiss Received
From A Poetical Rhapsody (1602), ed. A. H. Bullen (1890–91)
Love
Since I your cherry lips did kiss,
Where nectar and ambrosia is,
My hungry maw no meat requires;
My thirsty throat no drink desires.
For by your breath which then I gained,
Cameleon-like, my life's maintained.
O grant me then those cherries still,
And let me feed on them my fill.
If by a surfeit death I get,
Upon my tomb let this be set:
By cherries twain his life he cherished,
By cherries twain at length he perished.
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Davison, Francis. “Upon a Kiss Received.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davison/53/.
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Davison, Francis. “Upon a Kiss Received.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davison/53/.
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