🎵「The Kiss」by Sara Teasdale, Song Creation by Cookie

This beautiful and heartfelt poem, "The Kiss" by Sara Teasdale, captures the profound and transformative experience of love. The speaker reflects on the unparalleled power of a lover's kiss, comparing it to the gentle touches of the natural world-like the wind and rain-that once brought her comfort. However, now that she has experienced the depth of her lover's affection, nothing else can compare.
The speaker’s emotions are tender yet fierce, as she turns away from the world’s simple pleasures, such as the sea’s winds and April’s rains, choosing instead to cherish and protect the sacred memory of her lover’s kiss. This love is depicted as transcendent, eternal, and royal, sealed forever in her heart. The final lines express the speaker's devotion, stating that after being touched by a love so profound, she could never settle for anything less.
It’s a poem filled with both delicacy and intensity, revealing how love changes us deeply, making everything else seem small in comparison.
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The Kiss
Sara Teasdale （1884 - 1933）
Before you kissed me only winds of heaven
Had kissed me, and the tenderness of rain-
Now you have come, how can I care for kisses
Like theirs again?
I sought the sea, she sent her winds to meet me,
They surged about me singing of the south-
I turned my head away to keep still holy
Your kiss upon my mouth.
And swift sweet rains of shining April weather
Found not my lips where living kisses are;
I bowed my head lest they put out my glory
As rain puts out a star.
I am my love's and he is mine forever,
Sealed with a seal and safe forevermore-
Think you that I could let a beggar enter Where a king stood before?