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Jenny Kissed Me
- Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
Jenny kissed 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.
See also, Bruce E. Newling's Jenny
Merely Kissed Me
The above poem can be found for example in:
Bryant, William Cullen, ed. A New Library of Poetry and Song (Utopian Edition).
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927.
Phillips, Louis, ed. The Random House Treasury of Light Verse.
New York: Random House, 1995.
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