Today’s Poem: Jenny Kiss’d Me

Say I’m growing old, but add, / Jenny kiss’d me.

Leigh Hunt in a portrait by Samuel Laurence, c. 1837 (Wikimedia Commons)

“Say I’m weary, say I’m sad, / Say that health and wealth have miss’d me,” writes Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) — “Say I’m growing old, but add, / Jenny kiss’d me.”

It would be hard to find something sweeter than what we have for Today’s Poem: Hunt’s 1838 “Jenny Kiss’d Me.”

Hunt was a minor…