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''Jenny kiss'd Me'' (original title: ''Rondeau''〔''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 )〕) is a poem by the English essayist, Leigh Hunt. It was first published in November 1838 by the ''Monthly Chronicle''.〔http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/leigh-hunt〕 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. ==Poem== The complete poem〔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〕 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 missed me, :''Say I'm growing old, but add :''Jenny kiss'd me. The poem was deemed worthy of inclusion in ''The Oxford Book of English Verse'',〔 Hazel Felleman's ''Best-Loved Poems of the American People'', and Martin Gardner's ''Best Remembered Poems.''〔Gardner, Martin (1992), Best Remembered Poems, Dover Publications, ISBN 978-0-486-27165-1, pp. 63-64〕 Gardner adds that Paul Dehn parodied the poem by changing its last two lines to "Say I've had a filthy cold/Since Jenny kiss'd me." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jenny kiss'd Me」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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