<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477883" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Phantom Kiss</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">One night in my room, still and beamless,<br>With will and with thought in eclipse,<br>I rested in sleep that was dreamless;<br>When softly there fell on my lips</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A touch, as of lips that were pressing<br>Mine own with the message of bliss--<br>A sudden, soft, fleeting caressing,<br>A breath like a maiden's first kiss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I woke-and the scoffer may doubt me--<br>I peered in surprise through the gloom;<br>But nothing and none were about me,<br>And I was alone in my room.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps 't was the wind that caressed me<br>And touched me with dew-laden breath;<br>Or, maybe, close-sweeping, there passed me<br>The low-winging Angel of Death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some sceptic may choose to disdain it,<br>Or one feign to read it aright;<br>Or wisdom may seek to explain it--<br>This mystical kiss in the night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But rather let fancy thus clear it:<br>That, thinking of me here alone,<br>The miles were made naught, and, in spirit,<br>Thy lips, love, were laid on mine own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</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=477883" data-title="The Phantom Kiss de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="One night in my room, still and beamless, With will and with thought in eclipse, I rested in sleep that was dreamless; When softly there fell on my lips A touch, as of lips that were pressing Mine own with the message of bliss-- A sudden, soft, f..."></div> </div> </div>

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