Jenny Kiss’d Me

By Leigh Hunt

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 missed me,

Say I'm growing old, but add,

Jenny kissed me.

Copyright Credit: Leigh Hunt, "Jenny Kiss'd Me" from The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918, New Edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1939. Public domain.

Source: The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918, New Edition (Clarendon Press, 1939)