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a liberal minded people. And, it is
because of the fact that they dropped Puritanism many years ago, that they were able to.
perfect themselves in the art of love and, particularly, in the art of kissing.
Learn from the French.
Learn also from the Old Romans , especially Catullus, whose love poems to Lesbia have
lived through the ages because of the sincerity of his passion and the genius of his ability
to express his emotions in the form of beautiful poetry. For it was Catullus who wrote:
"Then to those kisses add a hundred more,
A thousand to that hundred so, kiss on!
To make that thousand up to a million;
Treble this million, and when that is done,
Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun."

THE ART OF KISSING
Get any book for free on: www.Abika.com 13Kisses cost nothing. So kiss on. There is one thing that you cannot. take away from
people and that is the ability to make love to each other. Despite the fact that the world
suffered from a long depression, people continued to get married and they continued to
have children. In fact, according to recently released figures, there were, more children
born during the depression than there had been in good times. This means that, although
married people did not have money, they still had themselves. They still had love. They
still had the ability to kiss as they pleased and when they pleased and as often as they
pleased.
Another poet asks:
What is a kiss? alack, at worst,
A-single drop to quench a thirst,
Tho oft it proves in happier hour,
The first sweet drop of one long shower.
Because kisses cost nothing.
So kiss on. Keep on kissing. Rare old Ben Jonson realized this when he wrote that, if he
had one wish, it would be that he could die kissing. But it is not only the robust and lusty
poets, like Ben Jonson, who are gluttons for kisses. There has been attributed to John
Ruskin, an old fogy of a philosopher if ever there was one, a request from him to a young
lady friend of his that she "kiss him not sometimes but continually." Still another poet
wrote:
Kisses told by hundreds o'er;
Thousands told by thousands more.
Millions, countless millions then
Told by millions o'er again;
Countless as the drops that glide
In the ocean's billowy tide,
Countless as yon orbs of light
Spangled o'er the vault of night
I'll with ceaseless love bestow
On those cheeks of crimson glow,
On those lips so gently swelling,
On those eyes such fond tales telling.
PUT VARIETY INTO YOUR KISSES
It is with the last few lines of this poem that our next subject for discussion concerns
itself. As was mentioned before, the true lover is not satisfied with only one or two
contacts. He wants n6thing to be held from him. It is for that reason that, when kissing a
girl, after. you have given sufficient time to the kissing of her lips, you should vary your
kissing by diverting your zeal to other portions of her face. Robert Herrick, who wrote,

THE ART OF KISSING
Get any book for free on: www.Abika.com 14many beautiful love lyrics in his day, has a poem which ideally synthesizes this idea of
varied kisses. In it he says:
It isn't creature born and bred
Between the lips all cherry-red;
It is an active flame that flies
First to the babies of the eyes;
Then to the cheek, the chin and ear;
It frisks and flies-now here, now there-
'Tis now far off, and then 'tis near;
Here and there and everywhere.
Let us say that you have revelled in a sweet, long kiss. Suddenly, you see your loved
one's eyes close as though in a moment of weariness. Gently detach your lips from her's
and raise them up to her closed eyelids. Drop a kisslet first on one eyelid and then on the
other. Feel the rolling orb quiver under your lips. Then , when you have done this, run
your lips down along the line of her nose, stopping at odd times to purse them into a tiny
kiss. When you reach the wrinkle of her nostrils, bury your lips deeply into the curve and
kiss little niblets into first one and then the other. If her eyes still are closed, repeat the
process.
But return to the lips.
Never forget this important injunction, "Return to the lips," for they can never become
satiated with love's ardent kisses. The little kisses that you have deposited on her eyes
and her nose serve only to vary the Menu of love. They are but spice to the course of
love's banquet