<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116723" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The First Kiss of Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ha barbitos de chordais<br> Er ota mounon aechei.—ANACREON</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Away with your fictions of flimsy romance,<br> Those tissues of falsehood which Folly has wove;<br>Give me the mild beam of the soul-breathing glance,<br> Or the rapture which dwells on the first kiss of love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye rhymers, whose bosoms with fantasy glow,<br> Whose pastoral passions are made for the grove;<br>From what blest inspiration your sonnets would flow,<br> Could you ever have tasted the first kiss of love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If Apollo should e'er his assistance refuse,<br> Or the Nine be dispos'd from your service to rove,<br>Invoke them no more, bid adieu to the Muse,<br> And try the effect, of the first kiss of love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hate you, ye cold compositions of art,<br> Though prudes may condemn me, and bigots reprove;<br>I court the effusions that spring from the heart,<br> Which throbs, with delight, to the first kiss of love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your shepherds, your flocks, those fantastical themes,<br> Perhaps may amuse, yet they never can move:<br>Arcadia displays but a region of dreams;<br> What are visions like these, to the first kiss of love?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! cease to affirm that man, since his birth,<br> From Adam, till now, has with wretchedness strove;<br>Some portion of Paradise still is on earth,<br> And Eden revives, in the first kiss of love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past—<br> For years fleet away with the wings of the dove—<br>The dearest remembrance will still be the last,<br> Our sweetest memorial, the first kiss of love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Byron">Byron</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116723" data-title="The First Kiss of Love de Byron" data-description="Ha barbitos de chordais/ Er ota mounon aechei.—ANACREON/Away with your fictions of flimsy romance,/ Those tissues of falsehood which Folly has wove;/Give me the mild beam of the soul-breathing glance,/ Or the rapture which dwells on the first k..."></div> </div> </div>

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