Kisses

Samuel Taylor Coleridge * Track #44 On The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol I

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Kisses by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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An 18-line poem written in rhyming couplets, composed in 1793. Coleridge describes the god Cupid concocting a love potion which is called ‘Kisses’: the poem is essentially an extended allegory of the amorous effect induced by kissing. The metaphor of Cupid as an ‘eyeless Chemist’ who cooks up love s...

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Cupid, if storying Legends tell aright,
Once fram'd a rich Elixir of Delight.
A Chalice o'er love-kindled flames he fix'd,
And in it Nectar and Ambrosia mix'd:
With these the magic dews which Evening brings,
Brush'd from the Idalian star by faery wings:
Each tender pledge of sacred Faith he join'd,
Each gentler Pleasure of th' unspotted mind—
Day-dreams, whose tints with sportive brightness glow,
And Hope, the blameless parasite of Woe.
The eyeless Chemist heard the process rise,
The steamy Chalice bubbled up in sighs;
Sweet sounds transpired, as when the enamour'd Dove
Pours the soft murmuring of responsive Love.
The finish'd work might Envy vainly blame,
And 'Kisses' was the precious Compound's name.
With half the God his Cyprian Mother blest,
And breath'd on Sara's lovelier lips the rest.

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