The Kiss
Are you shaken, are you stirred
By a whisper of love,
Spellbound to a word
Does Time cease to move,
Till her calm grey eye
Expands to a sky
And the clouds of her hair
Graves states here that time slows down, and stops during a kiss, making it seem to last forever, until it eventually ends. When I first read this line, I immediately thought of Salvador Dali’s painting “The Persistance of Memory”. The clocks melting makes it look as if time has stopped, or is running slowly. 
