Classic Poem

Honey words make charms of blisses
Which fondness keeps together
And these when ripe will melt in kisses
The dews of summer weather
The clouds will lay their heads on earth
To kiss it every morning
When showers of dew pearls have their birth
The woods and fields adorning.

2

The busy bee will kiss the flower
As often as he pleases
The butterfly in sunny hour
Will kiss but never teazes
The skylark mounts to kiss the sun
That o'er the green corn glitters
Then like a stone he drops when done
And in the meadow twitters.

3

The twilight kisses mornings blush
In coal black night's retreating
And midday breezes kiss the bush
Its pleasant shadows meeting
Grass, corn and leaves in windy days
Are stirred in mighty putther
The flowers are ravished by the bees
The rest kiss one another.

4

But Mary fairest of thy kind
No woman ne'er was fairer
Nature's a puzzle to my mind
A flirt I cannot bear her
For me and love she only cheats
Days sunshine and eve's dew
She kisses everything she meets
And I've not once kissed you.