Never try to trick me with a kiss
Pretending that the birds are here to stay;
The dying man will scoff and scorn at this.
A stone can masquerade where no heart is
And virgins rise where lustful Venus lay:
Never try to trick me with a kiss.
Our noble doctor claims the pain is his,
While stricken patients let him have his say;
The dying man will scoff and scorn at this.
Each virile bachelor dreads paralysis,
The old maid in the gable cries all day:
Never try to trick me with a kiss.
The suave eternal serpents promise bliss
To mortal children longing to be gay;
The dying man will scoff and scorn at this.
Sooner or later something goes amiss;
The singing birds pack up and fly away;
So never try to trick me with a kiss:
The dying man will scoff and scorn at this.
Love Poem By Sylvia Plath
Poetry is a counterfeit creation,
and makes things that are not,
as though they were.
- John Donne
I am two fools, I know, for loving,
and for saying so in whining poetry.
- John Donne
Whoever loves, if he do not propose
the right true end of love, he's
one that goes to sea for nothing but
to make him sick.
- Pablo Neruda
ROMANTIC
