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" FIRST time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write, And ever since it grew more clean and white, . . . Slow to world-greetings . . quick with its " Oh, list," When the angels speak. A ring of amethyst I could not wear... "
Prometheus Bound, and Other Poems: Including Sonnets from the Portuguese ... - Page 161
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1852 - 225 pages
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Sweethearts Always: Poems of Love

Janet Madison - 1907 - 236 pages
...did not speak one word, For the beating of our own hearts Was all the sound we heard. Houghton. 187 time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers...And ever since it grew more clean and white, Slow to world greetings — quick with its "Oh, list," When the angels speak. A ring of amethyst I could not...
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British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge ...

Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 968 pages
...commemorate. Should set a sculptured porpoise, gills asnort And vibrant tail, within the temple-gate. xxxvin ng Soul, enrapt, transfused. Into the mighty vision I could not wear here, plainer to my sight, Than that first kiss. The second passed in height The first,...
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The Book of Love

1911 - 206 pages
...kisse? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of Love. —Robert Herrick. 60 First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers...white, . Slow to world-greetings . . . quick with its "Ah, list," When the angels speak. A ring of amethyst I could not wear here, plainer to my sight Than...
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A Poet's Anthology of Poems

Alfred Noyes - 1911 - 446 pages
...— Yet love me — wilt thou ? Open thine heart wide, And fold within the wet wings of thy dove. VL First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I writeQ And ever since it grew more clean and white, . . . Slow to world-greetings . . . quick with...
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The Smith College Monthly, Volume 19

1911 - 628 pages
...wishes she'd had a love affair like that, maybe she could write a whole volume. That's such a dear ! " First time he kissed me he but only kissed The fingers of the hand wherewith I write." It would be nice to write something of that sort, but — didn't Miss...
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The Smith College Monthly, Volume 19

1911 - 618 pages
...wishes she'd had a love affair like that, maybe she could write a whole volume. That's such a dear ! " First time he kissed me he but only kissed The fingers of the hand wherewith I write." It would be nice to write something of that sort, but — didn't Miss...
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The Methodist Review, Volume 82

1900 - 1034 pages
...must all be read, the whole forty-four, to get the entire effect. We have space here for only two: First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers...hand wherewith I write, And ever since it grew more clear and white, . . . Slow to world-greetings, quick with its "Oh, list," When the angels speak. A...
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The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: With Two Prose Essays

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1916 - 692 pages
...commemorate. Should set a sculptured porpoise, gills a-snort And vibrant tail, within the temple-gate. xxxvni FIRST time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers...When the angels speak. A ring of amethyst I could nrt wear here, plainer to my sight, Than that first kiss. The second passed The first, and sought the...
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The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918, Volume 1

1918 - 2030 pages
...this . . . O Love, thy words have ill availed, If, what this said, I dared repeat at last! xxxviii First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers...hand wherewith I write; And ever since, it grew more dean and white, Slow to world-greetings, quick with its "Oh, list," When the angels speak. A ring of...
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HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS

KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...away. EB BROWNING — Lay of the Brown Rosary. Pt.II. 22 First time he kiss'd me. he but only kiss'd ׀ 0 @ . EB BROWNING— Sonnets from the Portuguese. Sonnet XXXVIII. 23 Something made of nothing, tasting very...
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