In exchange for a kiss on your scented skin

Francesco Paolo Tosti

In exchange for a kiss on your scented skin,

for a kiss amidst the gold of your hair,

accept my whole soul, oh beloved!

You would fill the infinity of my wishes...

with a kiss!

For a pure kiss in your lips,

deep, tenacious and slow like an adieu,

to suffer love-sickness and to burn with its fevers,

to languish and to die, little by little...

in a kiss!