Love
Jenny Kiss'd Me
From The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (1844)
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Jenny kiss'd me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who love to get
Sweets into your list, put that in:
Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,
Say that health and wealth have miss'd me,
Say I'm growing old, but add,
Jenny kiss'd me.
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Codex Note
A rondeau of eight lines built on the refrain of a single remembered kiss, with the speaker answering time, sadness and a list of notables by pointing to it. It is traditionally said to commemorate a kiss from Jane Carlyle.
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Hunt, Leigh. “Jenny Kiss'd Me.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hunt/2/.
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Hunt, Leigh. “Jenny Kiss'd Me.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hunt/2/.
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