Kisses. William Strode (1602-1645). III. Love's Beginnings. Bliss Carman, et al., eds. 1904. The World's Best Poetry. II. Love

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904.

III. Love’s Beginnings

Kisses

William Strode (1602–1645)


MY love and I for kisses played:
She would keep stakes—I was content;
But when I won, she would be paid;
This made me ask her what she meant.
“Pray since I see,” quoth she, “your wrangling vein,	5
Take your own kisses; give me mine again.”