Love
Upon Julia's Riband.
From Hesperides (1648)
Love
AS shews the Aire, when with a Rain-bow grac'd;
So smiles that Riband 'oout my Julia's waste:
Or like—Nay'tis that Zonulet of love,
Wherein all pleasures of the world are wove.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “Upon Julia's Riband.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/112/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “Upon Julia's Riband.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/112/.
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