The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 Papyras Classics

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Chapter 166

Leigh Hunt

1784-1859

592.

Jenny kiss’d Me

JENNY kiss’d me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who love to get
Sweets into your list, put that in!
Say I’m weary, say I’m sad,
Say that health and wealth have miss’d me,
Say I’m growing old, but add,
Jenny kiss’d me.