I Only Wish To Know

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Title:     I Only Wish To Know
Author: Frances Fuller Victor [More Titles by Victor]

Pray do not take the kiss again
I risked so much in getting,
Nor let my blushes make you vain
To your and my regretting.
I'm sure I've heard your sex repeat
A thousand times or so,
That stolen kisses are most sweet--
I only wished to know!

I own 'twas not so neatly done
As you know how to do it,
And that the fright out-did the fun,
But still I do not rue it.
I can afford the extra beat
My heart took at your "Oh!"
Which plainly said that kiss was sweet--
When I so wished to know!

Nay, I will not give back the kiss,
Nor will I take a second;
Creme de la creme of pain and bliss
This one shall e'er be reckoned.
The pain was mine, the bliss was--ours,
You smile to hear it so;
But the same thought was surely yours,
As I have cause to know.

[The end]
Frances Fuller Victor's poem: I Only Wish To Know

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