And when my lips meet thine
Thy very soul is wedded unto mine. -Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, Thy Gracious Face I Greet with Glad Surprise

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. -Rupert Brooke

Thy lips which spake wrong counsel, I kiss close. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Drama of Exile

I was betrothed that day;
I wore a troth kiss on my lips I could not give away. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lay of the Brown Rosary

First time he kiss'd me, he but only kiss'd
The fingers of this hand wherewith I write;
And ever since it grew more clean and white. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese (sonnet XXXVIII)

Something made of nothing, tasting very sweet,
A most delicious compound, with ingredients complete;
But if as on occasion the heart and mind are sour,
It has no great significance, it loses half its power. -Mary E. Buell, The Kiss

My lips pressed themselves involuntarily to hers--a long, long kiss, burning intense--concentrating emotion, heart, soul, all the rays of life's light, into a single focus. -William Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer

You would think, if our lips were made of horn and stuck out a foot or two from our faces, kisses at any rate would be done for. Not so. No creatures kiss each other so much as the birds. -Charles Buxton

Eden revives in the first kiss of love. -Lord Byron

"Kiss" rhymes to "bliss" in fact, as well as verse. -Lord Byron

A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love. -Lord Byron, Don Juan

When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past--
For years fleet away with the wings of the dove--
The dearest remembrance will still be the last,
Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love. -Lord Byron, The First Kiss of Love