Love
Upon Julia's breasts.
From Hesperides (1648)
Love
DIsplay thy breasts, my Julia, there let me
Behold that circummortall purity:
Betweene whose glories, there my lips Ile lay,
Ravisht, in that faire Via Lactea.
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Herrick, Robert. “Upon Julia's breasts.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/232/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “Upon Julia's breasts.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/232/.
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