For love's sake

A. Bax

For Love's sake, kiss me once again,

I long, and should not beg in vain,

Here's none to spy or see;

Why do you doubt or stay?

I'll taste as lightly as the bee,

That doth but touch his flower, and flies away.

Once more, and, faith, I will be gone,

Can he that loves ask less than one?

Nay, you may err in this,

And all your bounty wrong:

This could be called but half a kiss,

What we're but once to do, we should do long.

I will but mend the last, and tell

Where, how it would have relished well;

Join lip to lip, and try:

Each suck the other's breath,

And whilst our tongues perplexed lie,

Let who will think us dead, or wish our death.