To Mrs. --- On Her Beautiful Translation Of Voiture's Kiss

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Title:     To Mrs. --- On Her Beautiful Translation Of Voiture's Kiss
Author: Thomas Moore [More Titles by Moore]

_Mon ame sur mon levre etoit lors toute entiere.
Pour savourer le miel qui sur la votre etoit;
Mais en me retirant, elle resta derriere,
Tant de ce doux plaisir l'amorce l'a restoit_.
VOITURE.

How heavenly was the poet's doom,
To breathe his spirit through a kiss:
And lose within so sweet a tomb
The trembling messenger of bliss!

And, sure his soul returned to feel
That it _again_ could ravished be;
For in the kiss that thou didst steal,
His life and soul have fled to thee.

[The end]
Thomas Moore's poem: To Mrs. --- On Her Beautiful Translation Of Voiture's Kiss.

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