"Jenny kissed me." Leigh Hunt (1784-1859). Poems of Friendship. Bliss Carman, et al., eds. 1904. The World's Best Poetry. I. Of Home: of Friendship

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904.

Poems of Friendship

“Jenny kissed me”

Leigh Hunt (1784–1859)


JENNY 1 kissed me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in.
Time, you thief! who love to get
Sweets into your list, put that in.
Say I ’m weary, say I ’m sad;	5
Say that health and wealth have missed me;
Say I ’m growing old, but add—
Jenny kissed me!

Note 1. “Jenny” was Mrs. Jane Welsh Carlyle. [back]