Salomè - Passion and Death

"...Ah ! I have kissed thy mouth, Jokanaan, 
I have kissed thy mouth. There was a bitter 
taste on thy lips. Was it the taste of blood ? . . . 
But perchance it is the taste of love. They 
say that love hath a bitter taste. . . . But what 
of that ? what of that ? I have kissed thy mouth, 
Jokanaan, I have kissed thy mouth..." 

(cit. Salome : a tragedy in one act (1912) - Oscar Wilde)