Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864). The Kiss. Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. 1922. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse

Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

The Kiss

By Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)


THE MAID I love ne’er thought of me
Amid the scenes of gaiety;
But when her heart or mine sank low,
Ah then it was no longer so.
From the slant palm she rais’d her head,	5
And kist the cheek whence youth had fled.
Angels! some future day for this,
Give her as sweet and pure a kiss.