A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this, To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.

The stanza idealizes erotic devotion as a kind of total renunciation: the speaker imagines a man who would surrender every other form of happiness (“all other bliss”) and every material possession (“worldly worth”) for a single, consummating moment of intimacy. The phrase “waste his whole heart” frames the kiss as extravagance—an intentional, even reckless expenditure of feeling—suggesting love as both ecstasy and self-emptying. “Perfect lips” heightens the romantic absolutism: the beloved is rendered flawless, and the kiss becomes a symbolic pinnacle that outweighs ordinary life’s rewards. The lines thus dramatize desire’s power to reorder values, making one instant seem worth an entire fortune of experience.