O Blush Not So! Poem by John Keats

O Blush Not So!

Rating: 2.8


O BLUSH not so! O blush not so!
Or I shall think you knowing;
And if you smile the blushing while,
Then maidenheads are going.

There's a blush for want, and a blush for shan't,
And a blush for having done it;
There's a blush for thought, and a blush for nought,
And a blush for just begun it.

O sigh not so! O sigh not so!
For it sounds of Eve's sweet pippin;
By these loosen'd lips you have tasted the pips
And fought in an amorous nipping.

Will you play once more at nice-cut-core,
For it only will last our youth out,
And we have the prime of the kissing time,
We have not one sweet tooth out.

There's a sigh for aye, and a sigh for nay,
And a sigh for "I can't bear it!"
O what can be done, shall we stay or run?
O cut the sweet apple and share it!

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Roisin Murphy 23 May 2012

How is this poem only averaging at 5.1? Worth more than that. Must say, second stanza is my favourite!

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HappyHappy JoyJoy 06 March 2010

I love this poem, because I would be the one addressed. I blush and sigh at EVERYTHING. And it's well written, so it's a great poem all 'round.

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