Leigh Hunt: Jenny Kiss'd Me
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 wealth have miss’d me,
Say I’m growing old, but add,
Jenny kiss’d me.
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Leigh Hunt (1784 – 1859) was an English critic, essayist and poet. Hunt co-founded The Examiner, a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles. He was the centre of the Hampstead-based group that included William Hazlitt and Charles Lamb, known as the ‘Hunt circle’. Hunt also introduced John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning and Alfred Lord Tennyson to the public.
The late great Jack Wolford used to recite this poem with brio. Thank you for the unexpected memory.
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Ah, I do so miss Jack. His incorrigible grumpy truth-telling was rare and invaluable.
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Sweet!
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Ah, just what the old girl needed this morning, thanks.
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And the old boy!
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