Lost Poetry Quotations

Re: looking for a poem?

tommy d — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 16:53:44 +0100

i'll never forget when she kissed me under the lilac tree

Re: looking for a poem?

Pam Adams — Mon, 10 Feb 2003 18:46:45 +0100

According to our friends at the University of Toronto: >Notes 1] The Jenny of the poem is said to have been Jane Welsh Carlyle, wife of Thomas Carlyle. pam

Re: looking for a poem?

Hugh Clary — Mon, 10 Feb 2003 03:36:04 +0100

< rummages > Ah, here it is ... folded in half with some twenty other pages of his rhymes. Brown envelope, so of course it hides neatly at the bottom of the bookshelf. Jenny kissed me when we met. She, adorned in silk and satin, Told me, "That is all you get; And as you leave, don't let the cat in." Retrospection makes me glad: Dread disease perhaps thus missed me. God knows what I might have had Had Jenny more than merely kissed me. I can see I didn't remember correctly about the flu. Newling is also the one who invented the McWhirtle: Dear Ann Landers ---------------- I'm really disgusted With Myrtle McWhirtle, The out-of-work bimbo Residing next door. She knows where to find Herself honest employment But chooses instead to be Neighborhood whore.

Re: looking for a poem?

Hugh Clary — Sun, 09 Feb 2003 21:09:37 +0100

Bruce Newling did a parody of this one. I will check around the house and see if I can find a copy. Ended with, 'Thank goodness Jenny merely kissed me", I believe. She had the flu or something. I remember reading elsewhere someone arguing that Hunt's ditty is an eight-line rondeau, but I again forget where I saw it.

Re: looking for a poem?

Julia33 — Sun, 09 Feb 2003 06:48:01 +0100

I must have learned this poem from a cynic, because the version that stays in my head runs: Say I'm weary, say I'm sad Say that health and wealth have missed me And if you seek a reason, add Jenny kissed me.

Re: looking for a poem?

rikki — Sun, 09 Feb 2003 00:18:48 +0100

I'ts by Leigh Hunt - you can find a collection of his poems in the Classic Poets list on this site. rikki. ------------ Jenny kiss'd Me by Leigh Hunt Jenny kiss'd 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, Say that health and welth have miss'd me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kiss'd me

Jenny kissed me

Marjo B — Sat, 08 Feb 2003 23:10:52 +0100

I'm looking for a poem called" Jenny Kissed Me" or perhaps just "Jenny". It's about a man at the end of his life, looking back realizes, that most things that he thought important at the time are fading from his memory. The one thing that stays with him now, is that Jenny kissed him. Does anyone know the poem or the author? Thank you.