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Latest revision as of 09:22, 3 February 2026
Poem written by Leigh Hunt
“Jenny kiss’d Me” (original title: Rondeau)[1] is a poem by the English essayist Leigh Hunt. It was first published in November 1838 by the Monthly Chronicle.[2]
The poem — per its original title, a rondeau — was inspired by Jane Welsh, the wife of Thomas Carlyle. According to anthologist Martin Gardner, “Jenny kiss’d Me” was written during a flu epidemic, and refers to an unexpected visit by the recovered Hunt to the Carlyle household and being greeted by Jenny.
The complete poem is:
Jenny kiss’d me when we met,
    Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who love to get
    Sweets into your list, put that in!
Say I’m weary, say I’m sad,
    Say that health and wealth have miss’d me,
Say I’m growing old, but add
        Jenny kiss’d me.[3]
The poem was deemed worthy of inclusion in The Oxford Book of English Verse,[3] Hazel Felleman‘s Best-Loved Poems of the American People, and Martin Gardner‘s Best Remembered Poems.[4]
Jeppe Aakjær translated the poem to the Danish dialect Jutlandic on 19 December 1926.
- ^ The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt. Now Finally Collected, Revised by Himself, and Edited by His Son, Thornton Hunt. With Illustrations by Corbould (1860), p. 285.
- ^ “Leigh Hunt”. Poetry Foundation. 26 January 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ^ a b Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur (1939), The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918, New Edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, poem #600, p. 701; and identical version online at http://www.bartleby.com/101/592.html
- ^ Gardner, Martin (1992), Best Remembered Poems, Dover Publications, ISBNÂ 978-0-486-27165-1, pp. 63-64
