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Kissing Helena

Percy Bysshe Shelley·1792–1822
Lines:7Movement:Romanticism
FROM THE GREEK OF PLATO. Kissing Helena, togetherWith my kiss, my soul beside itCame to my lips, and there I kept it,--For the poor thing had wandered thither,To follow where the kiss should guide it,Oh, cruel I, to intercept it!