Identifier: everylifedelight00pott (find matches)
Title: Every life a delight
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Potts, James Henry, 1848-1942
Subjects: Conduct of life
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati, The Abingdon Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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he kiss of love is depicted: Let himkiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better thanwine. Modern poetry has not improved much on that. Kissing is alleged to have been introduced into England byroyalty. The British monarch Vortigern gave a banquet inhonor of his Scandinavian allies, at which Rowena, the beautifuldaughter of Hengist, after the manner of her people, to thesurprise of all, saluted the delighted sovereign with a kiss. The kiss then became instantly popular. A knight whovisited the field of the cloth of gold, on being invited to a localcastle, was addressed by the kynde ladye in this style: Forasmuch as in England ye have such a custome as thata man may kysse a woman, therefore I will that ye shall kysseme, and ye shall also kysse these my maidens. Which thing, adds the old historian, ye knyghte straight-way did, and rejoyced greately thereat. Perhaps the most noted kiss of modern history was thatgiven by Queen Margaret of France, in the presence of her 210
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A DELIGHTFUL SALUTE The Tender Affections court, to Alain Chartier, the ugliest man in the kingdom.Finding him asleep, she kissed him on the lips, and then explainedto her equipage: I do not kiss the man, but the mouth thathas uttered so many charming things. Modern poets deal playfully with the kiss. They seem toconsider it a very fit subject for fanciful remark. Thus Moore: I never give a kiss, says Prue, To naughty man, for I abhor it. She will not give a kiss, t is true, She 11 take one, though, and thank you for it. Coventry Patmore could see only sly thoughts in kissing: I saw him kiss your cheek! T is true.O modesty!— T was strictly kept:He thought me asleep; at least I knewHe thought I thought he thought I slept. A more open expression is given by our own American,Sidney Lanier, in his Evening Song: Look off, dear Love, across the sallow sands,And mark yon meeting of the sun and sea:How long they kiss in sight of all the lands!Ah! longer, longer we. Now in the seas red vinta

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