Kiss

A kiss is the touch or pressing of one's lips against another person or an object. Cultural connotations of kissing vary widely. Depending on the culture and context, a kiss can express sentiments of love, passion, romance, sexual attraction, sexual activity, sexual arousal, affection, respect, greeting, friendship, peace, and good luck, among many others. In some situations, a kiss is a ritual, formal or symbolic gesture indicating devotion, respect, or sacrament. The word came from Old English cyssan ('to kiss '), in turn from coss ('a kiss').My lips are too small, they know not to kiss.My precious sweet, lying by my heart,one by one 'tonguemaking,' one by one.When my sweet precious, my heart, had lain down too,each of them in turn kissing with the tongue, each in turn.Finally I will drink life from your lips and wake up from this ever lasting sleep.The wisdom of the earth in a kiss and everything else in your eyes.I kiss her before everyone that they all may see my love.And when her lips are pressed to mine I am made drunk and need not wine.When we kiss, and her warm lips half open,I fly cloud-high without beer!His kisses on my lips, my breast, my hair......Come! Come! Come! And kiss me when I die,For life, compelling life, is in thy breath;And at that kiss, though in the tomb I lie,I will arise and break the bands of Death.And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth,for your love is better than wine.It's not hard to tell when two people are in love. Maybe they're trying to hide it from the world, still they cannot conceal their inner excitement. Men will give themselves away by a certain excited trembling in the muscles of the lower jaw upon seeing their beloved. Women will often turn pale immediately of seeing their lover and then get slightly red in the face as their sweetheart draws near. This is the effect of physical closeness upon two people who are in love.:9Ye gods, what are my feelings. Her lips are softer than the rose's leaf, her mouth is sweet as honey, and her kiss inflicts on me more pain than a bee's sting. I have often kissed my kids, I have often kissed my lambs, but never have I known aught like this. My pulse is beating fast, my heart throbs, it is as if I were about to suffocate, yet, nevertheless, I want to have another kiss. Strange, never-suspected pain! Has Chloe, I wonder, drunk some poisonous draught ere she kissed me? How comes it that she herself has not died of it?Romeo and Juliet by Sir Frank DickseeJean-Honoré Fragonard The Stolen Kiss (1786)The Kiss by Francesco Hayez (1859)A Little Coaxingby William Bouguereau (1890)Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss by Antonio CanovaLe Baiser ('The Kiss') by Auguste Rodin (1882) A kiss is the touch or pressing of one's lips against another person or an object. Cultural connotations of kissing vary widely. Depending on the culture and context, a kiss can express sentiments of love, passion, romance, sexual attraction, sexual activity, sexual arousal, affection, respect, greeting, friendship, peace, and good luck, among many others. In some situations, a kiss is a ritual, formal or symbolic gesture indicating devotion, respect, or sacrament. The word came from Old English cyssan ('to kiss '), in turn from coss ('a kiss'). Anthropologists are divided into two schools on the origins of kissing, one believing that it is instinctual and intuitive and the other that it evolved from what is known as kiss feeding, a process used by mothers to feed their infants by passing chewed food to their babies' mouths. The earliest reference to kissing-like behavior comes from the Vedas, Sanskrit scriptures that informed Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, around 3,500 years ago, according to Vaughn Bryant, an anthropologist at Texas A&M University who specializes in the history of the kiss. Both lip and tongue kissing are mentioned in Sumerian poetry: Kissing is described in the surviving ancient Egyptian love poetry from the New Kingdom, found on papyri excavated at Deir el-Medina: The earliest reference to kissing in the Old Testament is in Genesis 27:26, when Jacob deceives his father to obtain his blessing: Genesis 29:11 features the first man-woman kiss in the Bible, when Jacob flees from Esau and goes to the house of his uncle Laban: Much later, there is the oft-quoted verse from Song of Songs 1:2: In Cyropaedia (370 BC), Xenophon wrote about the Persian custom of kissing in the lips upon departure while narrating the departure of Cyrus the Great (c. 600 BC) as a boy from his Median kinsmen. According to Herodotus (5th century BC), when two Persians meet, the greeting formula expresses their equal or inequal status. They do not speak; rather, equals kiss each other on the mouth, and in the case where one is a little inferior to the other, the kiss is given on the cheek.