Kiss! Hollyhock in Love's luxuriant close! <br />Brisk music played on pearly little keys, <br />In tempo with the witching melodies <br />Love in the ardent heart repeating goes. <br /> <br />Sonorous, graceful Kiss, hail! Kiss divine! <br />Unequalled boon, unutterable bliss! <br />Man, bent o'er thine enthralling chalice, Kiss, <br />Grows drunken with a rapture only thine! <br /> <br />Thou comfortest as music does, and wine, <br />And grief dies smothered in thy purple fold. <br />Let one greater than I, Kiss, and more bold, <br />Rear thee a classic, monumental line. <br /> <br />Humble Parisian bard, this infantile <br />Bouquet of rhymes I tender half in fear.... <br />Be gracious, and in guerdon, on the dear <br />Red lips of One I know, alight and smile!<br /><br />Paul Verlaine<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/il-bacio/
