"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.
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. __TOC__
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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, , pp. 63-64
Jeppe Aakjær translated the poem to the Danish dialect Jutlandic on 19 December 1926.
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