- Here's to the girl with eyes of brown,
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If you ask for a kiss she will call you down;
Here's to the girl with eyes of blue,
If you ask for one -- she'll say, yes, take two.
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Though a kiss be a-miss
She who misses the kisses,
As Miss without kiss
May miss being Mrs.
And he who a-miss
Thinks both Misses and kisses
Will miss Miss and kiss
And the kisses of Mrs.
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Here's to the man who kisses his sweetheart
And kisses his sweetheart alone,
For many a man kisses another man's sweetheart
When he thinks he's kissing his own.
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Let us drink to the thought that where'er a man roves
He is sure to find something blissful and dear,
And that when he is far from the lips that he loves,
He can always make love to the lips that are near.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine.
The thirst that from the soul doth rise
Doth ask a drink divine;
But might I of Jove's nectar sup,
I would not change for thine.
I sent thee late a rosy wreath,
Not so much honouring thee
As giving it a hope, that there
It could not withered be.
But thou thereon didst only breathe,
And sent'st it back to me;
Since when it grows, and smells, I swear,
Not of itself, but thee.
[BEN JONSON (1572-1637), The Workes of Benjamin Jonson (London: Will Stansby, 1616).]
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They say microbes dwell in a kiss
This rumor is most rife,
Come, lead dear, and make of me
An invalid for life
Anon. lowe, 1910.
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May we kiss all the girls we please, and please all the girls we kiss.
lowe, 1910.