Two Thousand Kisses
A thousand kisses buys my heart from me;
And pay them at thy leisure, one by one….
Say, for non-payment that the debt should double,
Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?
–Venus and Adonis
Tag: Venus and Adonis
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December 19
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November 19
Ethereal
I hold you as a thing ensky’d and sainted.
–Measure for Measure,
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October 27
Wild Fire
Affection is a coal that must be cool’d;
Else, suffer’d, it will set the heart on fire
The sea hath bounds, but deep desire hath none.—Venus and Adonis
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October 1
Scandalous
I’ll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer;
Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale:
Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry,
Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.–Venus and Adonis
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August 7
Twice
Give me one kiss, I’ll give it thee again,
And one for interest, if thou wilt have twain.–Venus and Adonis
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June 28
Love Wins
What though the rose have prickles, yet ’tis pluck’d:
Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast,
Yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.–Venus and Adonis
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