by Thomas Flatman (1637 - 1688)
The kiss
Language: English
'I saw you take his kiss!' ''Tis true.” 'O, modesty!' ''Twas strictly kept: He thought me asleep; at least I knew He thought I thought he thought I slept.”
Authorship:
- by Thomas Flatman (1637 - 1688) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (b. 1941), "The kiss", 1994 [mezzo-soprano and piano], from Varieties of Amorous Experience, no. 4, confirmed with composer's website [ sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2019-01-22
Line count: 4
Word count: 29